I lived in Singapore and traveled frequently within Sri Lanka during the civil war. During the war, I had just left the airport one night when it was an aerial bombing target and the CX commercial flight was almost mistakenly shot down by the Sri Lankan military. None of that phased me and convinced me not to return.

This is different, it is not tamil led violence. If you spent time there during the war, you’d have seen that the entire country is a soft target, the security capabilities were terrible and still are. Government warnings aside, my own guidance is that this is a different in a way that creates risk i cannot tolerate, definitely not for my family. I have pictures of us in front of many of the bombing targets and i can only imagine we might wind up at or near the next round of targets (should there be more). I don’t t have confidence in the sri lankan security authorities as to whether they have eliminated current risks or can protect against future risks.