Former President completes payment of compensation to Easter Sunday victims

Sources said that former President Maithripala Sirisena has paid Rs. 100 million in compensation, which he had been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay the victims, for failure to prevent the Easter Sunday bomb attacks. Sources said that the relevant compensation had been credited to the ‘Easter Attack April 2019 – Victim Fund’. Of the Office for the Reparation Sri Lanka on August 16.

The Supreme Court had ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena and several others including former IGP Pujith Jayasundera to pay compensation to the victims for failure to prevent the Easter Sunday bomb attacks.

The former President paid Rs. 58 million in compensation to the victims in July this year.

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