Lanka to relax emergency in a month: president
Sri Lanka’s President announced yesterday he will allow tough emergency laws to lapse within a month because the security situation was “99 percent back to normal” following the Easter bombings. Maithripala Sirisena told Colombo-based diplomats from Australia, Canada, Japan, the US and European states that security forces were successful in getting at all those responsible for the April 21 bombings. Sirisena declared a state of emergency giving sweeping powers to the military to arrest and detain suspects a day after the bombings that killed 258 people and wounded nearly 500. The suicide bombings against three Christian churches and three luxury hotels were blamed on a local jihadi group, the National Thowheeth Jama’ath which has since been banned under the emergency.
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