UNICEF
By Sarah Crowe
VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka, 20 OCTOBER 2011- No words are needed. No translations. Her face, her gestures speak a language known across the world - a language of pain, of loss, yet somehow still of human hope. Bent double at 91 years of age, Meenadchy was left for dead in the chaos of the final stages of Sri Lanka’s 27 year war. In peace she longs for one thing: her missing granddaughter.
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“My granddaughter was so wonderful, tall and smart, always helping with everything I needed,” said 91-year-old Meenadchy Sellthurai.
Meenadchy’s daughter, Sarojinidevi Thissaveerasingam, 59, explained that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) took her daughter. “She came back after a few days but they took her away again,” she said.
