Narrating Crisis in Sri Lanka

By Nimmi Gowrinathan-February 16, 2015 Humanitarian efforts may alleviate the pain, but do they stop the political strife that leaves victims bleeding?

IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, Orphan Solidarity Days in Sri Lanka. April 5-12, 2013.
Image by IHH Insani Yardim via Flickr.

For Justice

Jeya’s daughter is nine days old, unnamed, when I meet her in Sri Lanka. Miniscule compared to my chunky little boy, born only a few months earlier, she squirms beneath pink netting as I gingerly reach in to hold her hand. I don’t need to see her, Jeya says, turning away. That day, I was a human rights researcher, and I wondered what fresh trauma I would cause in the pursuit of documenting her story.

Narrating Crisis in Sri Lanka by Thavam Ratna