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Easter Attack–A Year Back Today
It was a pleasant morning on Sunday, the last day of three days long weekend in April 2019. We were on a long-awaited vacation in Nuwara Eliya, the hill country of Sri Lanka, planned before few months ahead. On Sunday we were supposed to come back home and were at breakfast in the hotel restaurant. While we were at breakfast, that horrifying news of tragic bomb blasting was heard. As it said, several hotels in Colombo and many churches islandwide had been the target of suicide bomb attacks. Lately we got to know that it was Easter Sunday, where many Christians attending the church masses and others were at Easter brunch in hotels.
This news made us terrified. I could remember at that moment I screened across the restaurant at the hotel we were at as if to recognize any suspicious person around. What if there was a suicide bomber in this same hotel? What if someone attempts to blast bomb here itself? That would be the end of me and my loved one. Not only that, my parents, family and friends would be devastated. If by any chance we survived, the rest of the life would end up in a wheelchair or a hospital bed. One second would change or destroy our lives completely. I could recall this miserable feeling and all I wanted was to leave the restaurant, as well as the hotel as soon as possible. We intended to get rid of the feeling of insecurity, pain and disappointment.
