A rift between Sri Lanka's president and prime minister, which sparked a cr...
COLOMBO - A rift between Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister, which sparked a crisis last year, came under scrutiny on Monday a day after a series of deadly bomb blasts, with questions over how the government handled a recent warning of an attack.
Police had been warned this month about a possible attack on churches by a little-known domestic Islamist group, according to a document seen by Reuters. The president fired Wickremesinghe last October over political differences, only to reinstate him weeks later under pressure from the Supreme Court.
“This is the first time in history we have seen that the Security Council refused to come for a meeting with the country’s prime minister,” he said.
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