Indifference + Negligence – Political Will = Koslanda
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“Throughout recorded history, actions or inactions by self-absorbed kings, chiefs and politicians have been a regular source of societal collapses…”
Jared Diamond (Collapse: How societies choose to fail or survive)
( November 2, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The tsunami came sans warning. The very word was alien to most of us. Towering tidal waves were things which happened to other, less fortunate, countries – or so we thought, until that Boxing Day almost a decade ago.
This week’s landslides are another story. The first warnings about the precarious conditions in the Meeriyabedda division of the Koslanda Estate appeared in May 2005; the National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) issued a second warning in November 2011.
