Sri Lanka, Sept. 14 -- (Commemorating the 31st Death Anniversary of the late journalist and singer Sagarika Gomes)

There was a dark era in Sri Lankan that male and female journalists, artists, scholars, heroic members of our armed forces, politicians among others gunned down for doing their official jobs! During that time reading news as a journalist or singing a song as a singer can be deadly and it was considered as crimes by a certain group of thugs who called themselves Deshapremi Janatha Vyaparaya (DJV).

The young generation of Sri Lanka can find out about this darkest era existed in Sri Lanka from 1987 to 1992 through the internet, ancient photographs, news reports etc. But the best sources of obtaining reliable details of this da...