Place : A Forest camp in Srilanka (Eezhathu kaatu pagudhi)
Inhabitants: A Tamil Eezham Family
The Family: Father , Mother and 3 little children
Family's survival - Occasaional food items and other supplies, from the relief materials that reach them via various helping organisations in Tamilnadu and other places.
One fine afternoon. Surprisingly no bombings and fights in their area. More important they have some rice in hand for their lunch. The mother goes into the forest, gets some wood for fire and comes back. She starts preparing rice by making a fire out of the wood that has been just bought. She is extremely happy that her hunger struck family is gonna have something to cheer about today. A FEAST indeed, given their circumstanes.
Cooking's done. All 5 in the family gather around for a meal, something that has become a rare occasion for them. Happiness gleam in their faces. By the time they would have had coupla mouthfulls, they hear the roaring of fighter jets in they sky. 'They've come here too. Not even a single day we can think about peace', says the dad, as he moves out of the hiding to see what's actually happening.
As soon as he comes outta the house, he is able to witness destructive bombs being dropped a little far ahead, from their place. Realising the fact that jeopardy is just a few metres away, he rushes into their hiding, takes his children with him, runs and shouts at his wife to follow him to the safety trenches, that have already been prepared, having in mind such sudden attacks. Realising that their mom's not following behind, the little ones shout out on top of their voice, asking her to follow suit immediately. Poor mom, stores the the just cooked in a safe place , in order to safeguard it from stray animals & crows and then starts running towards the trench. Half way through, a powerful bomb strikes her and she falls down to the ground. The hepless father and the littles ones witness their mom suffering a horrible death, in front of their own eyes.
This isnt some cooked up fiction , but a true story that happened very recently in the forest areas of srilanka. In lieu of the recent fightings there between the tigers and military, millions of tamilians are subjected to such horrifying incidents. Families ruined, women raped, children killed, the srilankan tamils are living in hideouts in their own land and therez very little being done from out govt, which is aware of the fatalities that are happening there almost on a daily basis. With the Military forces in lanka, planning for a complete wipeout for Tigers within febraury 2009, only god knows what is gonna be the state of the tamilians there. Let us sincerely pray and hope that this attrocity comes to an end soon.
1 comment:
I sincerely hope that the war comes to an end there. Today the SL army has claimed that it has captured Mullathivu also.
But it needs to be seen, how the SL government is going to handle the post-war scenario. Hopefully, it respects the rights of the tamilians and rehabilitate them on equal grounds. else, all this will go to waste and we'll see sufferings for generations to come.
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