Saturday, December 17, 2011
Above: A resettled war widow who is now engaged in paddy cultivation as a means of sustenance.
Yoganathan Rathika is twenty-six years old, and has a two year old daughter. She lives in a resettlement village in Manthai West, Mannar. Like a lot of women trying to resume normal life after the war, Rathika faces several hardships. But Rathika has one additional burden to bear. She is a widow.
There are presently 89,000 widows in the North and East, including many women like Rathika, who lost their husbands to the 30 year civil war.
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