A tragedy that time cannot erase

31st January 1996 - 31st January 2007 - eleven years after the Central Bank bomb blast:

At 10 a.m. that day, just when Vasumathy would have been there, Tiger suicide bombers drove a truck packed with explosives into the nine-storeyed building. Of the front of the building nothing was left except charred rubble. The blast shook all of Colombo, destroyed several other buildings across from the bank and killed seventy people in the bank and on the street outside. One thousand people were injured.

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Prabhakaran is Passé

An organisation headed by a leader, who understands only terrorism, is unlikely to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the international community. Prabhakaran is a liability for the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Tamils in the post-9/11 world.

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