"She died on my lap"
A survivor describes what Indian Peace Keeping Force soldiers did in Valvettithurai on 2 August 1989, when 72 Tamil civilians were killed.
37 years on, not one Indian soldier has been prosecuted.
I know, with increasing precision, what I want my life to contain. Meaningful work. Financial ease. A home that feels expansive and alive. Books everywhere. A table with people around it. Work that travels further than I do. Time to think. Time to write.
A former manager of mine (he too is Sinhalese) recounted how he was walking home from school that day, and saw a Tamil family run into a church, only to be dragged back out by the mob, pushed back into their Volkswagen car and burnt alive.