For the Ones Staying Silent, for the Ones in Hiding

✍🏽 Disclaimer
This is a long read but a much needed one. So grab yourself that hot or cold beverage, take a seat and get cosy.
I write to inspire hope. This piece—written to honour the victims of Easter Sunday 2019— the dead, the living, myself, and you. We were the ones left behind.  It includes references and imagery related to grief, death, rape/sexual assault, religious and political violence. The language is raw. The feelings are real. The work is a deeply personal testimony. It is written through the eyes of a survivor — someone who lived through the Easter Sunday Attacks in Sri Lanka and has spent years reckoning with the aftermath. This is not a news report. This is not a call to violence or division.

This is grief laid bare. This is faith in crisis. This is truth-telling from a scar that never fully healed.

The words within are raw by design. The narrative includes religious references, strong language, spiritual questioning, survivor’s guilt, and emotional tension. These elements reflect the writer’s lived reality and emotional process, not a rejection of any religion or community. Faith and doubt coexist in this story — as they do in many human hearts.

Names of public figures are mentioned only in reference to events already available in the public domain. This piece does not make any new factual claims — it reflects the internal journey of someone trying to understand how to live after being spared.

If you have experienced religious violence, war, or trauma, please read gently. The emotions expressed may mirror your own, or they may challenge you. Either way, this writing asks you not for agreement — only for presence.

To those in power: this is not a threat. It is a cry. Hear it. 🇱🇰 🙏🏽 🏳️🧎🏽☮️
To the reader: This is a piece of hope wrapped in rage.
A prayer written as protest. A survivor asking the world to stop forgetting.

Let the world read. And let it not look away.

Side note: The alternating use of lowercase i and uppercase I throughout this piece is intentional. It reflects a vital part of the blog’s artistic and emotional expression. I apologise if it feels distracting — it’s meant to mirror the inner conflict and shifting sense of self explored in the writing. 
In other words,
I = i,  I, (i)I, I(i), (iI) or iI

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How would you look at your loved ones if you knew that was the last time you would get to look into their living, breathing eyes? How would you look at your husband? Wife? Partner? Children? Mother? Father? Grandparents? Brothers? Sisters? Nieces? Nephews? Pets? Friends? Cousins, even?

Would all past lives no longer matter?
Would you have been kinder when you were asked the same questions every day?

Would you take that chance and gaze into the eyes you’ve avoided too? The eyes you avoided either out of fear of seeing hate or — harder still — the gaze that chooses love?

🪔 *Where do they get their hope from? And why me? 🪔

Now, what if I told you that when you’re dead and gone, you would be seated on a church pew, your neck broken and twisted in ways you never imagined were humanly possible. Your head is in reverse for an hour, maybe more, leaving your body to meditate at the blood-painted altar. 🪔 🪔 🪔 🪔
Blood like paint flung by a panicked god — frantic, unsure, trembling. Not symbolically — not in wine or metaphor — but in thick, clotted streaks, still warm. 🪔 🪔 🪔 🪔

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*Humans did that.
Not beasts. Not war gods. Not the Devil.
Humans did that.

Worse, what if I told you that’s how the ones who truly love you find you? That that is their last memory of you? What if your soul really did travel and survive? What if you had to see them find you in that state?

*I would hate to be a ghost someday. Please don’t summon me. මෙන්න, මම වැඳලා කිව්වා 🙏🏽 I mean, what does a woman have to do to die in peace around here? Maybe that’s why some ghosts like to scare people — they are sick of being summoned. Sadly, despite science and logic, I still believe in that kind of thing.

Would their screaming cries deafen your ears? Would you try to hold and console them? Could you even bear to stand by the door? Hearing them whisper your name in their sleep like a chant? You see and hear everything. When they cry to you, you can’t move — and even if you did, they can’t hear or see you. What do you do when you’re finally forced to listen? To observe? Would it feel like looking into living, breathing eyes, and seeing nothing but the void?

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*I’d beg you — stop. Let go. It would hurt me to see you in pain. I would even tell you to forget justice and make use of the life you have.
But, I wouldn’t take my own advice. I would be tempted to go haunt the people who were truly responsible for our pain.

🪔 It wasn’t me, after all. 🪔
🪔 It wasn’t you. 🪔
🪔 It wasn’t a deity either. 🪔

It was merely a group of humans fuelled by greed, pride, and hate.

You and I just got caught in the crossfire.

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*Maybe that’s how God feels watching us. What if God exists? What if God is truly all-seeing and all-knowing?
I would hate to be God. Maybe God is stuck watching this loop too.

A friend — who is a strong atheist — once asked me what I would do if I got to be god for a day. I told him, “I would go on vacation. These people are ungrateful, blame me for the problems they create and enable. They don’t even believe I exist. I would go on vacation. Leave a note that says: ‘Sort yourselves out.’” He thought I was joking, but I was dead serious.

We ended up dissecting Maslow's hierarchy of needs to model a new world, and every time we came across a problem, I repeated, “But you’re god — you can do anything,” like a parrot, just to prove a point. 🥲😂 

The guilt of being the one left behind and having to watch generations buried together in a single day was soul-crushing. Some generations didn’t have family left to bury them. We dug mass graves. We watched the survivors wrestle with the shock of unforeseen, abrupt separation. The pain wasn’t just emotional; it was physical. It was like watching someone alive, slowly dying on the inside. Some buried only the parts they could find. Some just hoped they’d identified the right ones.

"Malcolm Perera, a labourer who said he helped carry people’s remains from St Anthony’s, including 50 bags of body parts, fumbled for words to recount his experience. Occasionally he lapsed into silence and just pointed at the sky and to his head." - The Guardian

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*Bless me Father for I have sinned. I am ashamed to admit that I could not muster the courage to fulfil my duty and attend the funerals, even though my emotions and feelings were on airplane mode.
It wasn’t just my duty. Now, looking back, I realise I owed it to the victims — both dead and alive — to show up. Despite my fears.
I justified it by telling myself that there was a security threat, and that I needed to keep my physical distance from Thathi (my father) and the Cardinal.
I was a coward.
We were all in it together.
I’ve come to learn that the toughest part of the struggle is showing up. The rest comes with taking it one moment at a time.
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Now that Easter is around the corner, I am reminded that this too shall pass. But how will it pass?
Is it okay to enjoy Easter again? Is it okay to be happy again? What would that mean? Does it mean anything? What’s the point of this?

*Why do we keep fighting each other — sometimes to the death? These are differences that are deeply personal and often beyond our control. We were born with some of these things. Some of us justified it as a cause for the “greater good.” What kind of cause justifies the murder of innocent civilians?

I mean, I understand the premise of “primal instinct” and “survival of the fittest.” But instincts can be wrong sometimes, right? Besides, haven’t times changed? I thought evolution was science. Why does science cease to exist when it comes to politics, religion, and social structures — whether local or global? One strategy is to divide and conquer.
How has that worked out for us as a human race?
Why do we allow that?
Why is history stuck in a never-ending loop?

"In the months before the bombings, Sirisena (president at the time) – who was also defence minister – had been engaged in an open row with the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, which led to a series of failures in national security. A parliamentary select committee appointed in May 2019 found that Sirisena had been “actively undermining” the government, resulting in the “serious lapses” that allowed the terrorist attacks to go ahead." - The Guardian

Oh, and get this– Ranil Wickremesinghe went on to become the president in 2022, when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to resign during Sri Lanka’s political uprising. He was the messiah that emerged once again.

I don’t fully understand politics and economics well enough to discuss whether his policies and decisions were right or wrong. So, let’s leave the politics and economy aside for a moment.

This man, when asked by Al Jazeera’s host Mehdi Hasan on Head to Head if he was willing to offer a personal apology – removing titles – used one hundered and fourteen (114) words to say “no.”

*Despite Mr Wickremesinghe having spoken English since before I was born, we probably had the same English tutor 👨🏽‍🏫. Yes, I sat there and counted. I’m petty like that 🤓
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Why didn’t he want to apologise? Apparently, once was enough. And he wasn’t found guilty anyway. This, coming from the man who admitted he had never received the three detailed warnings India 🇮🇳🪔 sent specifying locations, weeks prior to the Easter attacks. The last warning was just hours before the six cordinated attacks took place in churches and luxury hotels– because he was “out of the loop.”
Why was he out of the loop? Because he and the president were caught in a bad romance like a couple from 90 Day Fiancé – worse, මහ ගෙදර. No? ප්‍රවීනා? 😱

My point is, this man’s inability to show empathy – despite the extended olive branch handed to him time and time again – was a slap in the face, not only to the victims who lost family and friends, but to every Sri Lankan, regardless of our political, social, or religious differences.

And what better place to do it than on an international platform? We all went through that together as a nation.

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He then had the audacity to take a cheap shot at the Head of the Catholic Church of Sri Lanka – His Eminence, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith – saying that he is well aware of the politics of the Catholic Church.

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*First of all, Mr Wickremesinghe, that statement was not breaking news. I am well aware of the politics of the Catholic Church – both local and global.
The whole world is well aware of “the politics of the Roman Catholic Church.”
I am still trying to reckon with the years of scandals the Church drowns in – I’ve taken every crime personally, including the financial ones. I’m sure if Jesus were around, he would be flipping tables at the Vatican 😘

I still stand by the Roman Catholic Church and my Cardinal on this one – I believe he is well aware of the dirty politics of the Sri Lankan government. Good thing his age is appropriate enough for you to listen to.
I doubt it though. That was disrespectful.
Do you really need a Millennial to point that out to you?

We have been waiting for six years!

The Cardinal is the main reason many held back their violence.
They did it out of sheer obedience to their shepherd. That’s what we do when we are lost sheep 🐑

Don’t act like being “soft on the Muslims”, as you put it, was a single-handed job you accomplished all on your own. That wasn’t even relevant to the question that was asked. Why did you bring that up?
The “contained” violence that followed still caused a lot of damage and hate. Any and every Muslim was under threat – some fled Sri Lanka. Many lives and communities were destroyed that day. All trust was shattered, and my Cardinal asked me to forgive and choose peace after tragedy. 

It was citizens who made the conscious decision despite race, religion or creed who worked together to maintain as much peace we could possibly muster. I call it Sri Lankan Resilience.

Where is your accountability?

Do you have any idea how many were enraged at the Cardinal for preaching forgiveness, despite their obedience?
Some people sent him death threats. How do I know?
Because Verbum TV also received hate mail and death threats for standing by him and promoting peace.
I read the letters.I understood their pain.

*Some letters confessed that it was my family and the Cardinal who should have been killed.They aren’t wrong about me. Besides, I killed Alawdeen Ahmed Muad before he died (Click Here). I am Cain. Two hundred and sixty nine (269) people were slaughtered because of its domino effect. It should have been me.

Your statements were far more than just “disrespectful” – they were insensitive!

He is a victim too and had to be strong in front of an entire nation looking to him for guidance.
He already had a target on his back from terrorists, and it became a whole lot bigger when he pleaded for peace.
Who could he go home to, to lay his burden down?
I can’t imagine what his silent prayers were like in the dead of night. - Now that takes resilience.

You could have respectfully disagreed with him without calling it “nonsense” – as though you were annoyed at his pain.
Where is your empathy?
Where is your sense of accountability?
You took up office and sat on the grand throne again three years later, and you still couldn’t give us justice. How dare you? Where did you get that confidence from? I need some of that.

If I were your school teacher 👩🏽‍🏫, I would pull you by the ear, tell you to kneel down🧎🏽and write ✍🏽 “I am sorry” 269 times – and that’s just for the dead. 🦯

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After the Easter attacks, again, a messiah resurrected. The elections took place three months later and Gotabaya Rajapaksa won by a landslide. The family are Sri Lanka’s dubbed “war heroes”, after all. But he still did not win the electorate votes of Negombo (one of the locations of the Easter attacks). Some of us allowed our PTSD to take over, and our ugly side showed.

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I was shaken to see some Rajapaksa supporters taking to social media to say “මීගමුවට බෝම්බ ගහලා මදි” (Translation: Bombing Negombo wasn’t enough). Was that a humane response? How could anyone endorse such violence and demand more? Clergy had to get on social media and kindly plead with people to extend empathy and to leave politics aside.

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I understand the frustration, but no one should have to beg for some empathy in a democracy.

I saw the same thing happen again during the 2022 protest-turned-riot (Aragalaya/අරගලය). Just so some of you get a reality check—the protests weren’t just about the Rajapaksa dynasty. It was a stand against selfish politics and the corruption that came with it throughout time and history. We showed our Sri Lankan resilience and took a stand against “divide and conquer”.

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Children starved to death. Our hospitals ran out of medication. We spent longer waiting in line for fuel than we did at home—forget work. Our esteemed roads were empty.

Some took the opportunity to make their grand entrance into politics—new messiahs started erupting all over again.

*Sound familiar? Are you starting to see a pattern?

Some even rebranded. Must have been a full circle moment for them, seeing progress made from one riot to another 🩸🖤

Thathi and I generally disagree on religion and politics—that’s mainly because I like playing devil’s advocate 😈. Who says people who disagree can’t live or work together, sometimes for the same cause at the same time?
I fought with him, and joined the silent protest. I covered my hair and didn’t take photos in case it would come back to bite me later. Besides, it was still my duty to be politically neutral in public—a duty Thathi reminded me I was not tied to, if I didn’t want to be.

As days went by, silence turned to chants 🐦‍⬛, chants turned to screams and then, a 💩🌪️

Anyone who was known to be a “Rajapaksa supporter” was deemed guilty in the court of public opinion. Some were guilty by association. It kept escalating.
Suddenly, people were guilty for driving a certain vehicle or dressing a certain way. Some even burnt down libraries. What were the books guilty of? Was that a humane response?

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Again, I understand the frustration, but no one should have to beg for empathy in a democracy.

*Why are we such extremists?
Maybe we should learn to express anger in healthier ways, without projecting.

*I know, I know—it’s easier said than done.
Trust me, I know.

I mean, I’m still fighting the narrative in my mind, that if a group of people missed warnings that I was going to get sexually assaulted before it happened was still paying me damages

“In addition to the government’s investigation, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has initiated contempt of court proceedings against Nilantha Jayawardena, former director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), for his failure to pay full compensation to the victims of the attacks.  Mr. Jayawardena had been ordered to pay 75 million rupees in compensation, but so far has only paid 10 million rupees.”  - Vatican News

and, more importantly, offered an apology—I would still be working on my anger 😡

But I would unravel and be fuming 🤬 if I later heard one of them confidently saying:

“I have offered my apology and finished Minoli, and nothing more. The Supreme Court has cleared me, but I apologised on an official capacity for this.
Now you know, I want to tell you one thing. 
*clears throat*
I’m a [insert religion of choice]. 
One day, a man came to the Buddha and started abusing him. Abused him, abused him, abused him, abused him. When he finished, the Buddha asked, son, if you give someone a present and he doesn’t accept it, whom does it belong? That man said it belongs to the person who gave it. He said son, I won’t accept what you have said about me so it belongs to you....I can also say something about the Christ but I won’t do that."

🪔🪔 Again, all the man was asked was whether he would make a personal apology—without the titles 🪔🪔

And if he had the audacity to start acting like he came up with a world-class comeback, or looked annoyed and grumpy for the topic even having come up…

I would have to fight the urge to walk up to him and shoot him directly at his 3rd 👁️.
That is my preferred style of execution.

Quick and easy. ✌🏽

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🧘🏽‍♀️ Instead, I would march straight back into court and say: ☮️

“Your Honour, I forgive, but I’m not sure these men have understood the gravity of their mistakes. Not even the symbolic fine—the price of a brand-new Land Rover, their preferred vehicle of choice—was enough.
We maybe need to send them to some sort of rehab. That is not a humane response. Please, help.”

🪔 And I didn’t even die. 🪔
The bad, bad, bad man didn’t abduct me in a white van 🚐, rape or torture me.
He even dressed me back and spared my life before leaving peacefully 😇
🪔 I get to live. 🪔

Do you see or hear the ♾️ loop I’ve been stuck in?
It crashes around me like the waves 🌊
Is my anger unreasonable?

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Easter tribute*I cross my heart and swear to die — if His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith tells me the only strategy left for justice is to march into Parliament and the Supreme Court, I will take leave from work, borrow a loan, buy myself a plane ticket and fly all the way to Sri Lanka to join in.
🪔 This time, I won’t cover my hair. 🪔
🪔 This time, I will not stay silent. 🪔
This time, I will take photos and videos to post them for the little followers I hold on my palm to see and hear. I’ll even go the extra mile and live stream it too.
More importantly, this time, I will literally stand next to him, despite the target my Cardinal has on his back. I’m sure it got a whole lot bigger after his interview with Channel 4.
He will be my shepherd for the day, week, month, year — as long as it takes. We waited six years.
🪔🪔 And you know what? It didn’t take a lot to convince Thathi this time. It is the “politically neutral” thing to do. 🪔🪔

*If anyone says, “think of the economy” or the “tourism industry”, I will first give them the death stare till the irony settles in.

🪔I will then tell them that I have — for the last six years. 🪔

🪔 According to the BBC, “At least 38 foreigners are among the dead, including British, Indian and US citizens.” 🪔

🪔🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇳🪔 All of them warned us.

🪔🪔The server working the Easter Sunday brunch shift at the luxury hotel that day probably couldn’t believe his luck when he heard he got the job. 🪔🪔

🪔🪔 As for the economy, I took the financial crimes personally too. මේවා හොඳ පාඩම් අපිට, but that’s beside the point. 🪔🪔

*iI took a hard look in the mirror. iI asked myself if iI am the ‘prodigal son’.
It wasn’t home iI was running away from.
Yes, iI had to fold, but iI did not squander my father’s riches like a fool either.
iI did not even have to eat the leftovers of the pigs.
The flames 🔥 didn’t speak — they burnt.
No, iI did not throw pearls to pigs although it sometimes feels like it.
🪔Thank you for the privilege.

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We have been begging for six years, and every government that comes to power repeats the same narrative over and over and over again. They are still talking about “launching” investigations. I mean, I know Sri Lankans have a habit of being late to most things but this is a little ridiculous.

Why don’t these political parties work together to expose the truth? Didn’t we go through that together? Why does every government that takes over blame the last? Why is there always an excuse? Why do we keep finding out about moles within the government too? How many people knew? How many people thought murdering families having meals, or communities praying together, was for the greater good — the necessary evil?           🪔                          🪔                            🪔
Why is there a repeated pattern of evidence being mishandled or tampered with? Why are there so many careless mistakes? Why does evidence vanish into the void?

The current government announced on the 30th of March that they are going to release a “few names” closer to the anniversary of the Easter attacks. A good step forward — but they are far behind. Was that supposed to be a gift, or did the dates just happen to align perfectly? The president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake  spoke as if it were a massive accomplishment for his party. 

I understand that humility is not part of the job description, but people lost families here. So please, for their sake, be a little more humble about the bare minimum.

TIK TOK….TIK TOK 🧨

From what I sea, the current administration just walks around plastering band-aids over deep, gaping wounds. They’ve been delivering the same narrative for months now. We have been hearing and seeing this narrative for years. I am tired of every political party boasting about honouring rule of law like it’s an achievement. And in the same breath use it as a scapegoat to sadly point out that this is not a “dictatorship”. Yes, how sad!

TIK TOK….TIK TOK 🧨

The audacity — to tell us to be patient, as though we are in a rush for justice.

I’m sorry, but mentioning names isn't enough. What good is a name? More people for Channel 4 to make a documentary about? Are they trying to buy time, thinking we’d be that easy to silence?

TIK TOK….TIK TOK 🧨

Six years later, and all our leaders have collectively accomplished are a few names?

TIK TOK….TIK TOK 🧨

Anura Kumara Dissanayake has hijacked our cry for justice to give himself a pat on the back. It looks an awful lot like he’s just a toy soldier working to dust the 🎤 mic for his party’s resurrection. Congratulations 🍾🥂, this time, people chose to extend JVP-turned-NPP an olive branch too. The olive tree is running out of branches 🕊️

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If anyone deserves a kudos 🏆 and a little gold star 🌟, it’s the party’s PR team.

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*Please, tell me — do we have a choice? Look at what Al Jazeera reported back in 2021,

"Before the anniversary, the country’s Roman Catholics had threatened to take to the streets over what they say is the government’s failure to act against those responsible for the attacks.”  - Al Jazeera

Our verbal warnings are starting to sound empty. Tell me I’m over reacting. Tell me my frustration is unreasonable. It turned my whole world upside down and into a keyboard warrior ⌨️🍑☮️.
It’s true, I rarely speak in real life anymore.
It’s not easy to forget, despite the chunks of blackouts in the timeline.

*Here’s another embarrassing confession: I sometimes hear the screams of victims that were forced to stay silent; I sometimes see flashes of the dead in my sleep — they are gentle, but it hurts to be made to just watch and listen.

*Maybe that’s just the PTSD, but like I said — despite science and logic, I believe in the concept of a soul.
Do you?
What if souls really did travel and survive?
What if they are stuck watching our ♾️ loop?

iI have made the Lord my defender,
    the Most High my protector,
and so no disaster will strike me,
    no violence will come near my home.
You will put Your angels in charge of me
    to protect me wherever iI go.
They will hold me up with their hands
    to keep me from hurting my feet on the stones.
iI will trample down lions and snakes,
    fierce lions and poisonous snakes.

Until next time,
Minoli Christeen

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