{"id":85527,"date":"2026-02-25T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85527"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:12:25","slug":"sri-lanka-arrests-ex-spy-chief-for-abetting-2019-easter-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/sri-lanka-arrests-ex-spy-chief-for-abetting-2019-easter-bombings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka arrests ex-spy chief for &#8216;abetting&#8217; 2019 Easter bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1X1ZEg.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=77&amp;y=58&amp;s=877&amp;d=432\" alt=\"Children carrying portraits of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombing victims in Sri Lanka, marking the sixth anniversary on April 21, 2025.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanks authorities on Wednesday arrested the country&#8217;s former intelligence chief, Suresh Sally, for &#8220;conspiracy and aiding and abetting&#8221; the 2019 Easter bombings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/sri-lanka-arrests-ex-spy-chief-for-abetting-2019-easter-bombings\/ar-AA1X1Vc0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=699f2a7047bb46d38448979450b6ce48&amp;ei=91\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sri Lanks authorities on Wednesday arrested the country&#8217;s former intelligence chief, Suresh Sally, for &#8220;conspiracy and aiding and abetting&#8221; the 2019 Easter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/church-attacked.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85528,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85527\/revisions\/85528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}