Her sons disappeared twelve years ago. It was only after the child was handed over on the Wattuwahal bridge that he believed in the army call.
“This government then – this government today. If the government can take him away, can’t he tell us where he is? ” Devani Amma asks in Sinhala that everyone can understand.
After the disappearance of her son and the death of her husband, Sudaharan Devani’s only daughter with special needs is left at home alone. Working as a laborer on the northeast coast, he is old and miserable, struggling to keep his daughter alive. Despite all the hardships of life, she has not given up her great determination to find the whereabouts of her son Ratna, who has been fighting ever since.
“If we had children, they would do something and feed us. Therefore, we do not even know whether the government knows the suffering we are suffering or not. ”
But the government and the military say they do not know where they are. Devani Amma does not accept it today as she did then. She points out that the government has not conducted a proper investigation.
“Amy, don’t you know which commander was taken away?” Where did that commander go? Can you get it from him? ”
A new man has come to the aid of the authorities when the court could not resist the twelfth year’s exercise of flowers, incense and island in the sand dunes of Mullivaikkal, where the Tamil people have fallen victim to the war.
Organizers were able to reverse the ban imposed by the police this year to prevent Tamils from commemorating their dead, as they do every year. Twelve hours later, security forces in the Mullaitivu district suddenly announced that the province was at risk of a serious epidemic.
The province was isolated. Armed forces were deployed in the province. Restrictions were imposed on the Mullivaikkal memorial site.
Devani’s mother now has an unprecedented fear that the epidemic will bring a new answer to a government that has been reckless for twelve years about the fate of tens of thousands of people, including her son.