Sri Lanka’s survivors see reporters as a way to tell their story to the world

Enter a community like the tight-knit town of Negombo, where it looks like the deadliest of the Sri Lanka bombings occurred at a church mass, and you will find a group of people desperate to talk

When reporting on the aftermath of a terrorist atrocity like the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, international news organisations walk a fine line in order to bring important information to our readers.

Journalists can get a bad rep for flocking – like vultures, so the expression goes – to the scene of bad news, and when this is done intrusively that criticism can be fair. But enter a community like the tight-knit town of Negombo, where it looks like the deadliest of the Sri Lanka bombings occurred at a church mass, and you will find a group of people desperate to talk.