Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today said that the 2019 Easter attacks was carried out by a group who used the attacks to strengthen their political power.
The Cardinal expressed these views at a ceremony which took place at the General Cemetery in Borella today (18) to bless a memorial for the victims of the deadly Easter attacks which claimed over 250 lives.
“Our brethren were attacked not by religious extremism, but by a group that exploited it to use the attackers as pawns in order to strengthen their political power, ” the Cardinal went on to say.
“What we see in this is not religious fanaticism or a love for a religion, but the attempts of certain forces to consolidate their political position,” he said.
Cardinal Ranjith on Sunday opened two monuments at Borella and Madampitiya cemeteries in Colombo where some of the people killed in the Easter attacks have been buried. (NewsWire)