Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith urged UN to probe Ester blasts (Video)

The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church has urged the UN to investigate the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people, calling the massacre a “political plot,” AFP reported.

In an address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith demanded a mechanism to probe the attacks, which have been blamed on local Islamic radicals.

“The first impression of this massacre was that it was purely the work of a few Islamic extremists,” Ranjith said.

“However, subsequent investigations indicate that this massacre was part of a grand political plot.”Both have denied allegations of war crimes.

“We earnestly call upon the UNHRC and all its member countries to support the continuation of evidence gathering initiated by the Council last year and to devise a means to ensure an investigation to unravel the truth behind the Easter Sunday massacre,” the cardinal said.

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