Let’s get our facts straight. According to history , Investigations and eyewitnesses have shown that the attackers were mainly Sinhalese policemen and government security forces, accompanied by some UNP politicians who were in Jaffna at the time for the election campaign.
I visited the Jaffna Library for the first time, the same library that was burned down by political thugs from the South during the 1981 Development Council elections, and which today stands as one of the finest libraries in Sri Lanka, having won gold awards.
My favourite shipwreck in Colombo (a 100+ metre ex-container ship), has had 2 of its 3 masts collapse in the last couple of monsoons.
For those of us who dive there, these are real losses. The Sierra, for us, is an icon of Colombo's seascape.
Now we're down to the last mast.