Colombo, April 22 -- It was just a week ago an Indian investor in Sri Lanka and a reputed businessman in Saudi Arabia expressed their admiration for Sri Lanka at a lunch function in Riyadh.

While the investor praised the work force and the friendly Sri Lankans the Saudi businessman told us how he fell in love with the country on his first ever trip to the island.

The nightmare of what happened on Easter Sunday in our beloved motherland shook we Lankan expatriates in the gulf the same way it did during tsunami.

The massacre of the innocent people on Easter Sunday in churches and hotels is atrocious and extremely painful.

These heartless perpetrators in few minutes turned the entire country into a funeral house.

The ex-vice president o...