Sri Lanka gives 200-year sentences to terrorists who killed 278 people and maimed hundreds in the 2019 Easter bombings. Saudi Arabia sentences a Lankan national to death over an allegedly blasphemous Facebook post, deleted within minutes. The contrast is stark, troubling. Both responses raise questions about proportionality, justice and extremism.
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