Jaffna, Sri Lanka- For the past six years, Perinparani Thirunavukkarasu, 46, has been searching for her son who was snatched in front of her eyes in Jaffna, the former war-zone of northern Sri Lanka.
Thirunavukkarasu is among thousands of people whose relatives disappeared or were killed during the final stages of the civil war between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
"My son was abducted by eight men in military uniform on field motorbikes in 2008," Thirunavukkarasu told Al Jazeera.