Until the other day, few Americans could likely find Sri Lanka on a map, nor even dimly remember its British colonial name, Ceylon.
But the Indian Ocean island flashed across news screens over the Easter weekend, with a highly sophisticated and lethal series of bombings across the nation of some 20 million.
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