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Disturbing Vignettes (a series) November 1: more brutality, this time at Bambalapitiya

I was spared the video because I don't watch television. Here it is from the Daily Mirror Website. Check it out here My September 26 vignette was about war. But this one is about something happening in peace time, in Bambalapitiya, in the heart of residential and commercial Colombo. The man who was bludgeoned to death was deranged and as such violent to those around him - but do our forces not have any training to overpower him without killing him? and what about all those people, civilians like you and me, who stood around watching this happen? Is this our post-conflict collective conscience?