The fear that gripped the Tamil community in Colombo had only just begun to wane after a decline in the number of abductions when the indiscriminate arrests of over 2000 Tamils following the twin bombs in the city and a suburb, shook them to the core. The cordon and search operations carried out last week in the city and the suburbs came as a surprise not only to the Tamils, but to people of other ethnicities as well. The Tamils in the capital faced similar problems when bomb explosions were a part and parcel of Colombo life a few years ago. The Tamils were therefore to heave a sigh of relief...