The Jesuit priest continuing in his letter to the Portuguese
authorities in Goa wrote, “O, king, endless are the unlawful acts of our own Portuguese people, let alone those of Veediya Bandara. As a result, it is very
difficult to get the Sinhala
people to embrace Christianity.
December 26, 2004, left such a disastrous sight,
The tsunami rushed with all its might,
Thousands of people suffered its unforgivable plight,
And that fateful past cannot be driven out of sight.