{"id":219669,"date":"2021-06-03T00:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=219669"},"modified":"2021-06-04T05:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:42:21","slug":"cardinal-blasts-nandasena-regime-for-failing-to-investigate-sonic-sonic-says-bad-leadership-has-left-country-cursed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cardinal-blasts-nandasena-regime-for-failing-to-investigate-sonic-sonic-says-bad-leadership-has-left-country-cursed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Blasts Nandasena Regime For Failing To Investigate \u201cSonic-Sonic\u201d; Says Bad Leadership Has Left Country Cursed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is complaining that the Government has failed to investigate swirling allegations about an entity called \u201cSonic\u201d and claims that one of the Easter Sunday bombers had been in touch with army officers shortly before the final explosion on April 21, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Malcolm+Ranjith\">Malcolm Ranjith<\/a><\/span>, a staunch backer of the Rajapaksa family came out swinging at his latest press briefing on Wednesday (2). He issued a strong condemnation of the failures of the present government, and even wondered out loud about whether the country was experiencing the effects of a curse.<\/p>\n<p>Those who had swept to power pledging to protect the country were engaged in destroying it, the Head of the Catholic Church charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven nature seems to be turning against the rulers,\u201d the Cardinal claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch: The group that came to power to protect the country is destroying the country. Our hopes were dashed. Is this a curse? Nature is also angry with the rulers &#8211; Cardinal criticizes the government <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lka?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lka<\/a> <br \/>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UqANaFWppW\">https:\/\/t.co\/UqANaFWppW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NewsCenter.lk (@NewsCenterLk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCenterLk\/status\/1400020752359886848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Cardinal continued to question speculation surrounding a grand conspiracy behind the Easter Sunday attacks at Wednesday\u2019s briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former Attorney General said there was a grand conspiracy but never specified what it was. There are certain elements in the Easter Sunday attacks which have not been investigated thoroughly,\u201d he claimed in televised remarks.<\/p>\n<p>He said insinuations that politicians were also involved in the bombing plot had never been investigated. \u201cThere were statements made at the Commission that were never investigated further,\u201d the Cardinal charged.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Ranjith claimed that the Dehiwala bomber Jameel who set off the final explosion had met an \u201carmy person\u201d called Sonic.<\/p>\n<p>It was former IGP Pujith Jayasundara who <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfirst.lk\/2020\/09\/25\/dehiwala-suicide-bomber-met-intel-agent-before-detonating-vest-ex-igp-tells-pcoi\/\">first revealed<\/a><\/span> that the Dehiwala bomber had received a phone call from a military intelligence officer 45 minutes before he detonated himself. Strangely, the Easter Sunday Commission never investigated the matter further, or studied the Dehiwala bomber\u2019s cellphone data records.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission never investigated who had been in contact with the suicide bomber Jameel, the Cardinal charged.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fheadlinenewslk%2Fvideos%2F4344707885574561%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=476&amp;t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Observers said the Cardinal would probably retract his remarks in 24 hours, after phone calls and appeals from powerful sections of the ruling administration.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the anniversary of the Easter Sunday bombings this year, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith claimed the attacks were \u201cpolitically driven\u201d and had nothing to do with Islamic extremism, only to walk the remarks back the next day after they agitated the high echelons of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/a> Government.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinal exercises significant influence with his Catholic flock because of his persistent calls for justice for victims of the Easter blasts two years ago. The majority of those who were killed in the bombings were worshippers at Easter Sunday mass in churches in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/economynext.com\/sri-lanka-cardinal-drops-a-bombshell-on-eve-of-blast-anniversary-80874\/\">His remarks in April this year<\/a><\/span> provided a serious impetus to claims for many other quarters about a political conspiracy behind the Easter Sunday bombings involving the Sri Lankan state security and intelligence apparatus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/harin-manusha-rock-parliament-with-exposes-who-did-easter-sunday-bombers-call-sonic-sonic-and-the-boss\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The code name \u2018Sonic-Sonic<\/span>\u2019<\/a> was first revealed by Harin Fernando in Parliament two months ago. The Code has been widely speculated to refer to the State Intelligence Chief and long-time Gotabaya Rajapaksa ally, Maj. Gen. Suresh Sallay.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations sparked panic for the SIS chief and the hyper-securitized regime of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The weeks following Fernando\u2019s disclosures, buttressed by similar revelations by JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake and SJB MP Manusha Nanayakkara and subsequently Cardinal Ranjith too, saw Sallay and other security officials rushing to meet with the Catholic bishops\u2019 conference to vehemently deny the allegations and \u201cset the record straight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At least one of these meetings was arranged for the SIS Chief by stealth by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, Colombo Telegraph learns. Premadasa, who summarily cancelled a previously scheduled meeting with the Catholic Bishops Conference, ensured the meeting slot would be filled by Maj. Gen. Sallay and his team. The meeting had been sought initially by SJB MPs who provided a briefing on revelations in the Easter Sunday Commission report to the Catholic Clergy in Colombo. At Premadasa\u2019s behest, both appointments provided by the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference were cancelled by the SJB. The <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sajith-sabotages-sjb-mps-revelations-on-easter-attacks-probe\/\">Opposition Leader\u2019s conduct<\/a><\/span> has sparked concern about his allegiances and continuous desire to appease powerful sections of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration. Premadasa has also urged SJB MPs to \u201cease up\u201d on the Easter Sunday. Fernando and Nanayakkara have denied these reports. However neither MP has brought the subject of the Easter attacks and intelligence involvement in the bombings since.<\/p>\n<p>In an unprecedented move, the SIS Chief also \u201cbriefed\u201d the Attorney General Dappula De Livera on the direction of the Easter Sunday attacks probe. The SIS has no role in the investigation. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>(By <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Nimal+Ratnaweera\">Nimal Ratnaweera<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":219674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardinal Blasts Nandasena Regime For Failing To Investigate \u201cSonic-Sonic\u201d; 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