Wednesday, June 15, 2005


"I got injured in tsunami. My mother and my elder brother were killed.I was displaced from Myilitty in 1990, and went to Nagar Kovil. Then went to Vanni through Kilali. I got injured on my spine,in an attack in 1995 while going to Vanni.I lived in vanni till 2002.My wife died of mouth cancer in Vanni. After the main Jaffna- Kandy A9 highway was opened,I came back to Point Pedro.But still I can't go back to my birth place and I want to die there. I have nobody to care for me" says 54 years old fisherman Kandasamy Sivalingam.