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    As new details of Sri Lanka attackers emerge, survivors call for the return of a strongman

    by Shashank Bengali and Munza Mushtaq, Los Angeles Times Apr 24, 2019 4 minutes

    NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka - The family was stunned, grieving - and angry. They had just buried three of their own, an elderly couple and their 11-year-old grandson who were killed in their church pews Easter morning, and they lashed out at the government.

    "They destroyed our security," said Ranjiv Silva, 45, the boy's father, his voice shaking. "We can never forgive it."

    In their anguish, Silva and his family members voiced a sentiment heard often this week in the rain-soaked courtyards and freshly dug burial grounds of this largely Catholic town, site of the deadliest of the eight bombings across Sri Lanka on Sunday: It was better when former President Mahinda Rajapaksa

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