In Jaffna More than twenty school children were killed when the Sri Lanka Air Force targeted a Nagercoil schoolboy on 22/09/1995. More than fifty school children were seriously injured. Many of them had lost limbs.
A ten-year-old student who lost a leg with a thigh asked, “Will my leg grow?” This question that freezes the soul deprived me of many nights of sleep. Dr. K. Sujanthan, who was on duty at the operating theater of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital that day, cried before they could tell us about this death.
The Sinhala nation must one day respond to these atrocities, if not today.
Addition – 22/09/2018
A doctor has confirmed that the prosthetic leg in the photo was taken in the area where the heavy fighting took place in Anandapuram.