http://www.jdslanka.org/index.php/analysis-reviews/poetry-a-prose/354-yet-another-incident-in-july-1983 Yet Another Incident in July 1983 LAST UPDATED ON 13 SEPTEMBER 2013 BY BASIL FERNANDO Burying the dead being an art well developed in our times (our psycho-analysts have helped us much to keep balanced minds--whatever that may mean--) there is no reason really for this matter to remain so vivid as if some rare occurrence. I assure you I am not sentimental, never having had a 'break down' as they say. I am as shy of my emotions as you are. And I attend to my daily tasks in a very matter of fact way. Being prudent too, when a government says "Forget" I act accordingly. My ability to forget has never been doubted, never having had any adverse comments. On that score either. Yet I remember the way they stopped that car, the mob. There were four in that car, a girl, a boy (between four and five it seemed) and their parents--I guessed--the man and the woman. It was in t...