Sri Lanka Struggles to Come to Terms With the Implications of the Easter Sunday Bombings
With the 2009 ending of the civil war, Sri Lankans thought they had put strife behind them/ Balkan Fernando was at his home in Kochchikade, a suburb north of Sri Lanka’s capital, when he heard the first bomb go off around 8:45 a.m. He sprinted toward the deafening sound that had come from nearby St. Anthony’s Shrine and found members of the country’s Christian minority evacuating their Easter service amid a scene of carnal wreckage. “It must’ve been at the end of mass, during the holy communion,” he tells TIME. “I ran to the church as soon ...
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