Families of Sri Lanka’s ISIS Easter bombing victims to finally receive compensation

Sri Lanka Easter attack, photo by UCA.

Family members of victims of ISIS’s 2019 Easter bombing attack in Sri Lanka are finally set to receive financial compensation. The savage attack slaughtered at least 290 people and injured hundreds more.

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that former President Maithripala Sirisena and four other senior government officials were responsible for failing to prevent the attack. 

The court ordered a victims’ fund to be set up at the Office of Reparation to “investigate the alleged underpayment or nonpayment” of compensation.

According to the ruling, Sirisena was negligent because he failed to prevent the attack despite having credible intelligence warning of it. The court ordered him to pay US$273,300 from his personal funds to the victims’ families. 

Meanwhile, the other four officials were ordered to pay a…