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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe leaves after testifying in front of a parliamentary committee investigating the Islamic State-inspired Easter Sunday bomb attacks, at the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. Wickremesinghe said the coordinated suicide bomb attacks in three churches and three tourist hotels on April 21 were the result of the security apparatus failing to follow the transition of religious extremists into terrorists, adding that the country should prepare itself to face new forms of terrorism prevalent in other countries. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka PM: Country must prepare for new terrorism phase

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

FILE- In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, left, and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe attend a special session held to mark the country's seventieth anniversary of the first parliament of democracy, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A bill to abolish the death penalty has been submitted to Sri Lanka's Parliament, while the president has sanctioned the hanging of four drug convicts. The bill seems to be a move by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to stop the planned executions, which are now stayed by the courts. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Bill to end death penalty comes as Sri Lanka plans hangings

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

In this July 24, 2019, photo, a Sri Lankan army lowers the national flag at the landmark Galle Face, as new foreign investment sites stand in the background in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Shocks from deadly suicide bombings on Easter Day in Sri Lanka are reverberating throughout its economy in the worst crisis since the South Asian island nation’s civil war ended in 2009. The blasts have devastated Sri Lanka’s vital tourism industry, source of jobs for many, and hindering foreign investment. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka gives free visa to boost tourism after bomb blasts

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

In this July 24, 2019, photo, Sri Lankan trader Ranepura Hewage Jayasena, 76, waits for customers at shop selling mementos in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Shocks from deadly suicide bombings on Easter Day in Sri Lanka are still reverberating throughout its economy in the worst crisis since the South Asian island nation’s civil war ended in 2009. “Almost 100% of my business is gone. There are days without a single sale,” said Jayasena, looking grief-stricken as he went through the previous days accounts. “We had a war that raged for years, but we had good business. Bombs exploded in Colombo city itself, but that did not affect our business,” he said. “This is the worst period I have seen in my life.” (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Easter bombings damaged Sri Lanka economy beyond tourism

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Germany charges suspect over 2005 killing of Sri Lanka FM

Associated Press

In this May 10, 2019 file photo, a boy walks on a beach in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's government says it will decrease ground handling charges for airlines and slash aviation fuel and embarkation taxes to help the country's vital tourism industry recover after the Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Sri Lanka to slash airline charges to help boost tourism

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2019 file photo, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction until Oct. 30 against the execution of four people convicted of drug-related offences on Friday, July 5, a week after the country’s president announced that he would end the island nation’s 43-year moratorium on death penalty. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Sri Lanka’s top court stays executions until Oct. 30

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Sri Lankan PM opposes president’s move to hang drug convicts

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

Sri Lanka recruits 2 hangmen ahead of planned execution

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 15, 2019, file photo, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in Beijing, China. Siriserna says he has ordered the executions of four drug offenders who will be hanged in prison soon. The executions if carried out will end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment in the Indian Ocean island nation. (How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP, File)

EU says planned Sri Lanka executions contradict commitments

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

New torture claims against ex-Sri Lankan official in US case

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Expert: UN failed before Rohingya crackdown in Myanmar

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Indian police accuse man of spreading Islamic State ideology

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center is received by the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, center left, upon his arrival at the presidential secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, June 9, 2019. Modi arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday for a brief visit as part of his first overseas tour since reelection that emphasizes India's &quot;neighborhood-first&quot; policy. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

India, Sri Lanka agree to step up anti-terrorism efforts

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Australian Home Minister Peter Dutton, right, talks with Catholic priest Shameera Rodrigo during his visit to the St. Sebastian's church, one of the sites of Easter Sunday attacks in Negombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, June 3, 2019. More than 250 people were killed in coordinated suicide bomb attacks at three churches and three tourist hotels on Easter Sunday that were claimed by the Islamic State group and carried out by a local radicalized Muslim group. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Aussie home minister lays wreath at bombed Sri Lanka church

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Sri Lankan army probes possible additional extremist groups

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

In this Friday, May 10, 2019, photo, the 17th century built Dutch fort, which was a popular tourist site, stands empty in Galle, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was the Lonely Planet guide’s top travel destination for 2019, but since the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and luxury hotels, foreign tourists have fled. More than 250 people, including 45 foreigners mainly from China, India, the U.S. and the U.K., died in the Islamic State group-claimed blasts. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka’s hotels, beaches, eateries now empty of tourists

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 12, 2019, photo, Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard at the entrance to Good Shepherd convent and the St. Benedict's college in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Catholic officials and parents in Sri Lanka are hopeful that church-run schools will begin to reopen soon for the first time since April’s devastating Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Anxiety, hope as church schools wait to reopen in Sri Lanka

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

Sri Lankan gov’t minister: At least 1 Muslim killed in riots

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

A Sri Lankan naval soldier stands guard as Catholic devotees pray at the St. Anthony's church after it was partially opened for the first time since Easter Sunday attacks, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Two bomb experts were among the suicide attackers who struck churches and hotels on Easter in Sri Lanka and all those directly involved in the bombings are either dead or under arrest, police said. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

All directly involved in Sri Lanka attacks dead or arrested

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press