Dambulla Carnage

Carnivorous?
Anthropophagous?
Cannibalistic?
Genocidal?
Sanguinary?
Are there words
To denote this treacherous act?
In the name of:
Separatism?
Libération?
Emancipation?
Again old hackneyed doctrine:
“The end justifies the means”
From here where we will go?
Sufferers are innocent human beings
Who belong to all ethnic groupings

by Bhikkhu Mandawala Pannawansa Thero

(February 03, Paris, Sri Lanka Guardian)