{"id":51828,"date":"2023-01-12T23:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/12\/sri-lanka-ex-president-sirisena-compensate-2019-easter-bombing"},"modified":"2023-01-12T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:58:04","slug":"sri-lanka-ex-president-sirisena-ordered-to-compensate-2019-easter-bombing-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51828","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka ex-president Sirisena ordered to compensate 2019 Easter bombing victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court finds top government, police and intelligence officials were responsible for \u2018failing to prevent\u2019 bombings<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court in Sri Lanka has ordered the former president Maithripala Sirisena to pay millions in compensation to the victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/21\/sri-lanka-explosions-80-believed-injured-in-blasts-at-two-churches\">the 2019 Easter bombings<\/a>, the first time the courts have acknowledged the government\u2019s role in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The top court found that Sirisena and several other top government, police and intelligence officials were responsible for \u201cfailing to prevent\u201d the bombings in April 2019, \u201cdespite receiving intelligence ahead of the attack\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/12\/sri-lanka-ex-president-sirisena-compensate-2019-easter-bombing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court finds top government, police and intelligence officials were responsible for \u2018failing to prevent\u2019 bombingsThe supreme court in Sri Lanka has ordered the former president Maithripala Sirisena to pay millions in compensation to the victims &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,675,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-sri-lanka-attacks","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51829,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51828\/revisions\/51829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}