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World > Asia & Oceania
Fear, despair haunt Tamils after Sri Lanka's civil war
By Associated Press
Jun 02, 2024 12:38 am

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in.

It is a skill he has known for much of his life — and one that he had to relearn after a devastating injury. The former Tamil fighter lost both legs in 2009 as the South Asian nation's generation-long civil war drew to a close and the Tamils retreated in defeat.

LIFE GOES ON Singaram Soosaimuthu (center) chats with friends after returning from the sea after fishing overnight, in the town of Mullaitivu, northern Sri Lanka, on May 6, 2023. AP PHOTO

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