MWIThe Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka against Christian targets that killed hundreds raises obvious concerns of remilitarizing a society still getting over the scars of war. The worst violence the country has seen since its longstanding civil war ended almost exactly ten years ago is naturally being discussed at least partly in that war's context. But while the means of warfare are similar, the motivations are different. The civil war was fought between a Tamil minority and a Sinhalese majority. It was ethnic nationalism, not religion, that drove the Tamil Tigers to institutionalize suicide...
