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A crazy little thing called trust: Max Jeganathan on the cries of his motherland, Sri Lanka — Salt & Light – By Max Jeganathan Source : saltandlight.sg Sri Lanka’s former President made headlines recently when his home was stormed by an unruly mob.  Thirty-seven years earlier, a different unruly mob stormed my family’s home just a few kilometres away. Back then, it was a government-sanctioned gang that tried to kill me and my father and burn down our home. Today it’s an anti-government mob that chased the country’s former leader out of office and out of the country. Old problems, new victims Sadly, for the country of my birth, not much has changed since my family was thrown out of it in 1983. Today’s crisis in Sri Lanka is simply the latest chapter of suffering in a sad history of genocide, war, war crimes, false starts and government ineptitude. These are ...