15 men who were accused of planning the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 270 people and injured over 500 were found guilty by Sri Lanka’s High Court. Naufer Moulavi, who authorities claimed was the mastermind behind the suicide attacks, was among those convicted. Nine other men were found not guilty. The coordinated explosions at three upscale hotels and three churches were the bloodiest in Sri Lanka since the country’s civil conflict ended in 2009. Among the dead were forty-five foreigners.
The explosions claimed the lives of every bomber that carried out the attacks. The 25 individuals indicted were members of Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority, and investigators have already attributed the attacks to Islamist extremists. In detention, one person passed away. Before sentencing, the court session was adjourned. Two prison buses transported the accused, who had been charged with over 23,000 offences, to the High Court in the capital city of Colombo while handcuffed in pairs.
Sri Lankans, many of whom were minors, made up the majority of those slain. Celebrity chef Shantha Mayadunne and her daughter, a young family of five, at least eight employees from the hotels targeted, and five members of the same family from Negombo, in western Sri Lanka, were among them.
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