🚨 Easter Sunday Probe: Call to End Political Gamesmanship over 2019 Tragedy

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• Core Issue: Seven years after the April 21, 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks that claimed over 260 innocent lives, an independent analysis warns that the search for truth is being heavily weaponized as a political campaign tool by opposing factions. • Critical Governance Failures: The commentary highlights the tragedy as one of the largest intelligence, security, and governance breakdowns in modern Sri Lankan history. Key unresolved questions center on why repeated intelligence warnings were ignored, and who failed to protect churches, hotels, and the public. • The Legal Stance: The analysis emphasizes that investigations must strictly follow evidence and the law, entirely independent of political bias, affiliations, or allegations surrounding prominent political families (such as the Rajapaksas, Wickremesinghes, or Sirisenas). • Call to Action: To prevent further public confusion and respect the victims' families, the national state must ensure due process, presume innocence until proven guilty, and isolate the ongoing judicial/investigative process from the country’s continuous partisan warfare.

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