Why Do They Shoot?

25th Death Anniversary of Rajini Rajasingham Thiranagama

| by Tisaranee Gunasekara

“Politics is not religion, or, if it is, then it is nothing but the Inquisition.”

Camus (The Rebel)

( September 25, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The first shot was not fatal. She was heard asking her assassin, “Why are you shooting me?”

25 years after the murder of Rajini Rajasingham Thiranagama her final question remains unanswered at the most fundamental level. As Sri Lanka lurches towards another conflict, it is a question which needs to be pondered, at least by those who remember the past and fear its return, in an even more malevolent form.

Why Do They Shoot by Thavam