NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka — The little room could hold no more grief.
All day Monday, through the steamy heat, mourners quietly stepped inside and paused in front of a sealed coffin containing what was left of Sneha Savindi Fernando.
Sneha was standing in line for communion at Easter Mass on Sunday when she was blown apart. She was 11.
“Why did you leave me?” her grandmother cried, sitting in front of the coffin and rubbing its sides, the anguish tight in her hands. “There are so many bad people in the world. Why kill the innocents?”
It was a question all of Sri Lanka was asking.
Yes, why indeed ?
What do the radical islamist terrorists want to achieve by killing innocent people ?