One Year on, Easter Bombing in Sri Lanka Continues to Puzzle
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) – A 22-year-old Sri Lankan law graduate became the first Islamic suicide terrorist a year ago in the predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka. He detonated an explosive-filled rucksack amid a crowd of Easter Sunday worshipers at a Catholic Church in the seaside town of Negombo, close to the country's international airport. The explosion on April 21, 2019, at 8.25 am (local time) killed more than 50 people and wounded scores more. Within the next ho
COVID-19 Could Lead to Better Protection of Biodiversity and Wild Animals
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) – A positive outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic could be a better understanding of protecting biodiversity and a global ban on the trade in wild animals for food. The belief that COVID-19 began at a "wet market" in Wuhan in China, where wild animals were being sold for human consumption, has led to the Chinese government banning the trade in wild animals and a growing international campaign for this to be made into an enforceable internationa
