Bickering and passing the buck for government failures will not help either the country or families of bombing victims
The bombings in Sri Lanka, targeting Christians as they prayed on Easter Sunday and tourists in hotels, have struck the country like a hammer blow a decade after its agonising civil war came to a close. The news of nearly 300 lives lost will have sent a shiver down the spine of all peace-loving Sri Lankans, bringing back memories of a violent past when terror attacks dominated the national agenda.
For nearly three decades we were known as the place that gave birth to a ruthless guerrilla organisation, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Its use of suicide bombings as a tactic was chillingly replicated by the perpetrators of Sunday’s atrocities. But while it is no stranger to terrorism, Sri Lanka has never witnessed violence on this scale and with this level of coordination on a single day. Our return to normalcy, nurtured through 10 years of relative peace, has been effectively shattered.
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