Reflections On The Brink Of The Next Abyss

| by Tisaranee Gunasekara

“How could we not have seen what was coming, until it had arrived in our midst, clanking and smoking?”

John Banville (Shroud)

( June 26, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Mahinda Rajapaksa is furious. Not about the Aluthgama riots; that, in his eyes, was a ‘most minor incident’. He is furious about the peaceful protest (Hartal) against the Aluthgama riots.

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