Sri Lanka, June 15 -- Seven years after the horrific Easter Sunday attacks of 21 April 2019, which slaughtered over 270 innocent people and maimed hundreds more, Sri Lanka continues to be haunted by a tragedy that was as much a failure of governance as it was an act of terror. This was no mere "debacle" born of incompetence. The evidence points to a calculated convergence of a toxic 3-P Nexus of Politics, Planners, and Perpetrators that enabled the massacre.

Successive governments have shamelessly exploited this national wound for electoral gain while selectively wielding draconian laws like the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and Emergency Regulations when in power, only to cry foul when out of office. Enough is enough. It is time to...