“She hugged me with trembling hands and said, “Why did my child disappear? What happened to my son?” I still feel the weight of those words. All I could say was “Amma….Amma….Please don’t cry, Amma…” I felt guilty at that time. The army has made that mother’s son disappear. I felt that I am also responsible for the disappearance of that mother’s son, since I, a Southerner, had not talked about it for so long.”

Kavinda – Thanamalwila