For nearly 30 years, Sri Lankans lived with the threat of suicide bombings and terror attacks — tactics routinely used by the Indian Ocean island’s ethnic Tamil minority in their conflict with its Sinhalese-dominated government.
With the brutal 2009 ending of Sri Lanka’s civil war — when the Tamil Tiger separatist movement was eliminated — such horrors seemed to be history.
But the six blasts that killed nearly 207 in three luxury hotels and three churches packed with Easter worshippers on Sunday have shattered Sri Lankans’ growing sense of optimism that their country was on an upward path.
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