Sri Lanka kicks off bombings on Easter Sunday in 2019 | Bomb News in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan court will hear the first of three cases involving bombings that killed at least 270 people.

The Sri Lankan court has begun a third of a series of bombings that killed at least 270 people on the island in 2019, amid calls for greater response from torture groups.

In a lawsuit filed on Monday, former national police chief Pujith Jayasundara has been charged with failure to comply with a warning.

855 cases of murder and attempted murder were counted as Jayasundara stood in the harbor behind the courthouse. A total of 1,215 witnesses have been registered to testify, but not all of them could be summoned, his lawyer said.

“Our responsibilities with the former police chief are innocent. He did not intentionally help or support the violence and nothing has stopped him, “said lawyer Ranjith Dehiwala.

Former Secretary of Defense Hemasiri Fernando, then head of the Ministry of Defense, is facing a similar charge against Monday. Neither he nor his lawyer was present for comment.

Both men are out on bail.

The third trial, the trial of 24 men accused of terrorism, begins on Tuesday.

Police have handed over more than 23,000 cases to suspects, including assassinations, aiding and abetting terrorists, and collecting weapons and ammunition. The group also includes Mohammad Naufer, who is said to have instigated the violence and is affiliated with Islamic State.

The massacre that took place on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, targeted three churches and three hotels, killing 267 people, including 45 foreign nationals.

The uprising, the worst in Sri Lanka’s civil unrest, injured at least 500 people, mostly members of a small Christian community on the island.

On Sunday, many Catholics protested and laid flowers at a series of memorial services for the lost.

The students appealed to the government to help the survivors and to ensure that the cases are allowed to take place without political interference.

“We want real justice in this way. This is what we are asking the authorities to provide. We have been waiting for a long time and we want real people to respond to what happened, “said Eranga Gunasekera, a member of the victims’ support group, at a memorial service in Colombo.