An Expressway To Disaster
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“One must accept that a nation that suffers or wishes to suffer from national hysteria and political ambition has occasional clouding of the spirit and disturbance of the mind, attacks in which it briefly takes leave of its senses.” - Nietzsche
( October 3, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Rajapaksas are creating for Sri Lanka an expressway to disaster.
The Sajin Vaas Gunawardane–Chris Nonis incident symbolises the violent mores of Rajapaksa rule.
The news of a woman of 103 being bludgeoned to death by a boy of 13 demonstrates the degree to which the larger society has become infected by the virus of violence.
