COLOMBO (News 1st); Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a statement on Thursday (25) stressed that the Easter Sunday attacks were perpetrated by a group of Islamic extremists, and that the highest investigative arm of the then government - the CID - had for several months prior to the attacks, been investigating the activities of the very same individuals and groups that carried out the suicide bombings but failed to apprehend the t...