Sri Lanka’s catholic minorities on Monday reiterated their demand for justice in the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians.

Nine suicide bombers, belonging to the National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) which is linked to the Islamic State, carried out a series of blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.

In a statement on Monday, Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, said every individual named in the presidential probe panel’s report issued last month must be arrested. “It is absolutely necessary to prosecute without hesitation all those political leaders and officials, irrespective of the positions they held, for their failure to prevent the attack,” Ranjith said.

The special report found that former President Maithripala Sirisena and a host of other top defence officials, including former defence secretaries, former IGPs and intelligence chiefs, were guilty of ignoring prior intelligence.

Addressing parliament earlier in the week, Sirisena denied any prior knowledge personally but said intelligence information had been received by the authorities before the attacks.