One of the relatives of those who disappeared has testified that her family is experiencing persistent sorrows cause of majoritarian ethnic people. One of the women who have testified before the presidential commission today at Sankanai Divisional Secretariat has testified like this. Following are stated in her testimony;
We had been comfortably living in Colombo. Our shop located at Maruthanai was set ablaze during the 1957 riots. Following to that, my sister and her husband had been running a shop at Borella while we had been running a shop at Nugegoda. Both two shops were set ablaze during the 1983 riots.
Meanwhile, my sister's husband was assassinated in 1983 in an incident in which those who were travelling by a bus were gunshot by the military soldiers at Manipai.
As we did not have the deeds of the shop that we owned at Nugegoda, we couldn’t recover it. But despite my sister had the deeds of the shop that my sister owned at Borella, we couldn’t recover it. Though we sued at the court to recover our shop, we couldn’t. Consequently, we came from Colombo and stayed at Jaffna.
When we had been living in Jaffna, my brother Sivakumar (Age-33) who went to temple on 8th of March, 1996 did not return home.
The military soldiers positioned at Moolaai junction had caught my brother. When we asked them next day in this regard, the military soldiers told us that Sivakumar had been sent to the Palali hospital as he got injury on back. Then, the next day the military soldiers told us that cyanide capsule had been seized from my brother.
If my brother had gone missing while he was a member of the LTTE, I would have been happy with the thought that my brother went to fight for our country. But he did not have any contacts with the LTTE.
I want m brother. I do not want any livelihood assistances or money. If my brother is alive, give me my brother back. I know those who are not alive cannot be returned. If my brother is not alive, at least make us known what happened to him. If those who were disappeared are still alive, return them to their relatives.
