{"id":51196,"date":"2024-04-21T19:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51196"},"modified":"2024-04-21T19:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:01:51","slug":"un-pushes-justice-for-sri-lankas-easter-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51196","title":{"rendered":"UN pushes justice for Sri Lanka&#8217;s Easter victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations on Sunday urged Sri Lanka to bridge its &#8220;accountability deficit&#8221; and ensure justice as the country commemorated the 279 victims of its worst-ever attack against civilians five years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UN&#8217;s top envoy to the country, Marc-Andre Franche, told a remembrance service in Colombo that there should be a &#8220;thorough and transparent investigation&#8221; to uncover those behind the Easter carnage in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist bombers hit three churches and three hotels in the island&#8217;s deadliest suicide attack aimed at civilians, but grieving families say they are still waiting for justice.<\/p>\n<p>Among the dead were 45 foreigners, including tourists visiting the island a decade after the end of a brutal ethnic conflict that had claimed more than 100,000 lives since 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations on Sunday urged Sri Lanka to bridge its &#8220;accountability deficit&#8221; and ensure justice as the country commemorated the 279 victims of its worst-ever attack against civilians five years ago. The UN&#8217;s top envoy to the country, Marc-Andre Franche, told a remembrance service in Colombo that there should be a &#8220;thorough and transparent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1235],"class_list":["post-51196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-un-pushes-justice-for-sri-lankas-easter-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}