Sri Lanka ends Emergency, four months after Easter suicide bombings

Sri Lanka has ended a four-month state of emergency declared after Easter suicide bombings by Islamist extremists that killed 258 people, officials said Friday.

President Maithripala Sirisena has been extending emergency on 22nd of each month since April 21 attacks on three hotels and three churches. However, his office confirmed that President Maithripala Sirisena h t extended it for ar term and reby allowed emergency to end on Thursday.

" president did t issue a fresh proclamation extending emergency by a furr period," an official source said.

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official government printer also confirmed that re was tification reimposing state of emergency, which gives sweeping powers to police and security forces to arrest and detain suspects for long periods.

government used emergency as it tightened security across country and hunted members of a local jihist group which was held responsible for attacks and which claimed allegiance to Islamic State group. Police have said that all those directly responsible for suicide bombings have eir been killed or arrested.

This week Tourism Minister John Amaratunga said he h asked president to relax draconian law to signal to foreign holidaymakers that situation in country was back to rmal. Sri Lanka's parliament is currently investigating security lapses that led to Easter attacks despite intelligence warnings.

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Sirisena himself has been accused of failing to act on precise Indian intelligence that jihists were about to hit Christian churches and or targets in Sri Lanka. A parliamentary public inquiry has been told President Maithripala Sirisena who is also minister of defense and law and order failed to follow proper national security protocols.

mainly Buddhist nation of 21 million people was about to mark a dece since ending a 37-year-long Tamil separatist war when Islamist extremists struck. 

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