Overview
- The UN's top envoy to Sri Lanka, who spoke Tuesday at a remembrance service in Colombo, urged the government to deliver concrete results and said families are still waiting for answers.
- The main criminal case against 25 defendants is before a three-judge Supreme Court panel with daily hearings underway and victims beginning to testify.
- Police in February arrested retired Major General Suresh Sallay, the former state intelligence chief, on allegations of aiding the attackers under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and he denies wrongdoing.
- Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said political interference has blocked an honest search for the truth and urged prosecutors to question powerful figures in politics and the security services.
- Victims' groups and Church leaders renewed calls for an independent special prosecutor and for the release of past inquiry reports to restore public confidence in the process.