Finding some solace amid the bloodshed in Christchurch and Colombo via TomLasseter Reutersbackstory
COLOMBO - The island nations of New Zealand and Sri Lanka are separated by some 6,600 miles of ocean. But in just over a month’s time, each has seen mass killings that generated similar headlines.
In Colombo and other Sri Lankan cities, a group of nine suicide bombers struck in coordinated explosions on April 21. They strolled into St. Anthony’s Shrine in the capital, St. Sebastian’s Church in nearby Negombo and a church to the east of the country as the faithful sat in pews on Easter Sunday. As I crisscrossed Sri Lanka in the back of a sport utility vehicle last week, though, I wondered about investing too much in the similarities, of seeing them as a part of an inevitable string of modern terror.
Once there, the only job he could find was as a clerk at Work and Income, the government agency for employment services and financial assistance. No matter.When the gunman began shooting into the mosque where Abdelhalim was praying, the 67-year-old grandfather watched, helpless, as bullets pinned down his son on the floor before him. Abdelhalim’s wife was shot in the arm. It seemed possible he was about to witness the slaughter of his loved ones.
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