One year after Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka
Last year, we were on Easter holidays in a peaceful Scotish countryside cottage when we heard the horrible news of a series of bomb blasts in Colombo mainly targeting churches and hotels. Bewildered, we were wondering who could scoop down to the level of killing innocent devotees of any religion on a sacred day. First, we looked around to see if our Christian friends were safe and were relieved that all of them were in different places at that time. Then we came to know that it was a series of suicide attacks by an extremist group linked to Daesh . In Sri Lanka, about 70% of the population are Buddhists with about 12% Hindus, 10% Muslims, and 6% Roman Catholics. But, if you visit Sri Lanka during Christmas time, you would not think that only 6% are Roman Catholics. The entire country takes a festive mood. Though there have been isolated conflicts and agitations between various extremist religious groups, there has never been a threat of this nature against any religion in peace...