Traveling through Sri Lanka is like venturing into a kaleidoscope, each piece shifting and separate. A Buddhist heartland, with verdant hills and saffron-robed monks, gives way to neighborhoods of mosques and men in prayer caps. In 1998, Tamil separatists attacked one of world’s holiest sites, the temple in central Sri Lanka where a relic believed to be the Buddha’s tooth is kept. The Tamil Tigers responded by massacring dozens of Buddhist monks. Sri Lanka cannot be divided neatly by race, faith or language.

Source: New York Times May 05, 2019 05:48 UTC