A news report on a BBC Sinhala-language interview in which former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena publicly denied personal responsibility for the security failure behind the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. Asked whether he or the then prime minister should accept responsibility, Sirisena said, "Why should I accept responsibility for the Easter attacks? Responsibility should be taken by those responsible," and that a president "doesn't go to apprehend moonshiners or rapists or drug peddlers or terrorists himself," naming the then Defence Secretary and the then Inspector General of Police, both already facing their own court cases over the same intelligence lapse, as the officials who should have briefed him.
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EconomyNext is an established Sri Lankan digital news outlet with its own named reporting staff, used here to relay a public figure's own directly quoted words from a named broadcaster's interview (BBC Sinhala) rather than for a contested factual claim of its own; treated as a strong secondary tier below a primary transcript or the government commission's own report. Citation
PublisherEconomyNext
URLhttps://economynext.com/former-prez-sirisena-refuses-to-accept-responsibility-for-sri-lankas-easter-sunday-attacks-71216/
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