What happened?
A Sri Lankan parliamentary committee has concluded that the State Intelligence Service chief was responsible for intelligence failures in the weeks before the terrorist attacks that killed 269 people, mostly Christians, on Easter Sunday. He had received information on possible attacks 17 days earlier but had delayed sharing the intelligence.
Why was it under-reported?
The media very quickly forget terrorist atrocities, even ones this big; it’s an old story, and half way around the world. Also, the Western press have little understanding of Sri Lanka’s political complexities and infighting, which the report concluded contributed to the security failure.
