Channel 4’s ‘outrageous’ claims rejected

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defense has vehemently denounced the accusations leveled by the British television network Channel 4 in its new documentary that the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks were deliberately orchestrated by senior governmental officials

In a statement, the Defense Ministry went on to categorically deny Channel 4’s claims that Major General Suresh Sallay was complicit in the supposed calculated bombings, which targeted several churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.

Deeming the accusations “outrageous”, the Defense Ministry reiterated that the terrorists involved in the Easter Sunday attacks, in which the lives of more than 260 people were and hundreds of others were left wounded, had never been on the government payroll.

The ministry also expressed profound dismay at Channel 4 for “promulgating such a malicious and unsubstantiated narrative.”

It asserted that Channel 4 would be held unequivocally accountable for any unforeseen actions or repercussions stemming from their “unfounded, malevolent, and poorly substantiated” claims made in the documentary.”