As today (April 21) marks the fourth remembrance of the horrifying bombings on Easter Sunday 2019 that claimed hundreds of lives and left a persistently devastating void in the families and friends of terror attack victims, the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has started a “human chain” (‘Jana Pavura’).
The ‘human chain’ is put together to assist the Catholic Church’s efforts to find the long-overdue truth regarding the horrible slaughter on April 21, 2019, as well as to seek justice for the victims.
All Sri Lankans are welcome to participate in the campaign today, according to Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo.
The “human chain,” with the slogan “We are watching until justice is meted out,” started this morning at 8:00 a.m. and will form a line from St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya to St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade on the main road between Colombo and Negombo.
At 8:45 a.m., there will be a two-minute moment of silence in honor of the terrible terror attack victims.
Last night, a special church service was held concurrently with a march that was arranged from St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya to St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade.
On April 21, 2019, a group of suicide bombers from the now-illegal local Islamic extremist group National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) carried out a series of explosions at several locations, including St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade, St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, Zion Church in Batticaloa, Cinnamon Grand, Kingsbury, and Shangri-La hotels in Colombo, and a guest house in Dehiwal
Following the attacks, Sri Lanka proclaimed a state of emergency, and investigations into the incident resulted in the arrest of numerous people who had connections to the suicide bombers.
