Why Sri Lanka attackers' wealthy backgrounds shouldn't surprise us

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Recent history shows that people with comfortable lives can easily be drawn towards violent extremism

When police and soldiers in Sri Lanka set out on the trail of the attackers who killed more than 350 people in a series of bombings on Easter Sunday, they did not expect to find themselves in Dematagoda, one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Colombo.

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