Palitha Mapatuna

It is evident that certain parties are relentlessly engaged in the promotion  of the notion of a ‘maha molakaru’ in the suicide bombings that took place in 2019, commonly referred to as ‘Easter Sunday Bombings’.

However, the individuals responsible for these bombings, per news reports, have already been identified and seemed to have been driven to these attacks through obsessive attachment to their (religious) views.

Additionally, reports indicate that these individuals had made a video, making a prior announcement of the intended attacks, also giving reasons for them.

In spite of all this, there seem to be parties engaged in the promotion of the notion of a ‘maha molakaru’, which revives and maintains the painful memories of the living victims of these bombings, all the while presenting it as ‘seeking justice’.  

However, such promotion may only succeed in preventing  the living victims from coming to terms with their losses and getting on with their day to day lives.

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Sri Lanka faced many tragedies (including the tsunami) in the last forty years or so, and an underlying equanimous attitude enabled victims to recover in a relatively short time. Perhaps this is due to its long inherited culture.

Thus, regarding the bombings of 2019 one may have expected a more prudent and dignified attitude than a search for probably an imaginary ‘maha molakaru’.

Disruption of Standard Procedures                                                             

In the case of any terrorist attacks, the appropriate course of conduct seems to be to allow competent governmental authorities to follow standard procedures, 

without being interfered with by others. 

Interference may cause disruption of these procedures, which, presumably, have been developed, over long years, by knowledgeable and experienced individuals. 

Such disruption may, in effect, function as an obstruction to the investigation. 

Palitha Mapatuna