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Reply To: Name - Reply Comment Amongst these survivors are children who have to visit hospitals for regular checkups, some who have sustained severe burn injuries, some who are permanently disabled and some who continue to undergo trauma Since 2019, there’s…
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Reply To: Name - Reply Comment Amongst these survivors are children who have to visit hospitals for regular checkups, some who have sustained severe burn injuries, some who are permanently disabled and some who continue to undergo trauma Since 2019, there’s…
Why it matters
Seven years have elapsed since the Easter Sunday carnage but the mastermind has not yet been revealed.
Common ground
This means justice has not yet been done to victims and survivors of the deadly attacks.
Perspective signals
No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.
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- What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Chief Government Whip Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said that comments made by certain factions indicate that investigations are being carried out in the right direction?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.
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Claim 1: “Chief Government Whip Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said that comments made by certain factions indicate that investigations are being carried out in the right direction”
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Claim 2: “Seven years have elapsed since the Easter Sunday carnage but the mastermind has not yet been revealed”
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Wikipedia entries about the 2019 Easter bombings and Easter-related topics do not address the mastermind's status or its revelation after seven years.
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— On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS-related terrorist suicide bombing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings
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— Easter, also called Pasch () or Pascha or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the Bible's New Testamen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter
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— The Second Sunday of Easter is the eighth day of the Christian season of Eastertide, and the seventh after Easter Sunday. It is known by various names, including Divine Mercy Sunday, the Octave Day of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sunday_of_Easter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sunday_of_Easter
Claim 3: “Opposition parties were up in arms when the incumbent government arrested former SIS Chief Suresh Sallay”
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Claim 4: “Amongst these survivors are children who have to visit hospitals for regular checkups, some who have sustained severe burn injuries, some who are permanently disabled and some who continue to undergo trauma”
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Only the Wikipedia entry on the 2019 Easter bombings mentions the event but does not specify details about survivors' conditions (children with checkups, severe burns, etc.). Other evidence entries are unrelated.
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— On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS-related terrorist suicide bombing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings
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— Australian Survivor: Brains V Brawn II is the twelfth season of Australian Survivor, which premiered on Network 10 on 17 February 2025 and is based on the international reality competition franchise S…
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— Easter Island (Spanish: Isla de Pascua, [ˈizla ðe ˈpaskwa]; Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, [ˈɾapa ˈnu.i]) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island
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Claim 5: “The Easter Sunday carnage eventually became an election promise, when incumbent President Dissanayake was campaigning for presidency”
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Claim 6: “The recent book launch titled ‘In search of the mastermind of the Easter Sunday attacks’ by a former minister... asserted that the main suicide bomber of this incident is in fact the mastermind of the attacks”
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Claim 7: “Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa announced that a satyagraha campaign would be launched against Sallay’s arrest”
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No evidence found in live sources to support the claim.
Claim 8: “Since 2019, there’s just one topic that almost every Sri Lankan is interested in particularly in April, other than the Sinhala and Hindu New Year”
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No evidence from Wikipedia or other sources supports the claim about April being a primary topic of interest in 2019 Sri Lanka.
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— British Sri Lankans are an ethnic group referring to British people who can trace their ancestry to Sri Lanka. It can refer to a variety of ethnicities and races, including Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors/Mu…
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— Hinduism is one of Sri Lanka's oldest religions. As of 2011, Hindus made up 12.6% of the Sri Lankan population. They are almost exclusively Tamils, except for small immigrant communities from India an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_in_Sri_Lanka
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— The "Sri Lanka Matha" (English: "Mother Sri Lanka"; Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා මාතා, romanized: Śrī Laṅkā Mātā; Tamil: ஸ்ரீ லங்கா தாயே, romanized: Srī Laṅkā Tāyē) is the national anthem of Sri Lanka. "Sri La…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Matha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Matha
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