Sri Lankan army soldiers stand guard at the scene of a bomb explosion in Colombo January 8, 2008
All armed conflicts share elements of atrocity and tragedy, but civil wars can be the most uncivil. Often, such hostilities involve rival ethnic groups, each wanting its own identity and space and, often, these disputes are the most emotional and intractable. So it is with Sri Lanka. Colombo's decision to officially pull out of a 2002 cease-fire agreement with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) was just a confirmation of what Sri Lankans have known for months war has returned to the strife-torn Indian Ocean island nation.
It never really went...
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