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The Catholic Church in the tiny village of Iranapalei in the Mullaitheevu district was lit up with 1000 lamps on May 18. The thousand lamps were to remember the tens of thousands, possibly even more than a hundred thousand, that had perished during the last stages of the war. Iranapalei and it’s surroundings had experienced some of the bloodiest moments of the war in 2009 and many had died, disappeared, been physically and mentally scarred. Everyone in Iranapalei was displaced in 2009 and they were only allowed to return in 2011 or 2012.
Conscious of COVID-19, the parish priest had held an early morning mass with a handful of Catholic sisters and laymen. But individual persons, mostly war survivors and remaining members of families whose loved ones were killed or had disappeared, had visited the church throughout the day. The church also left a pot of Kanji for people who came by – Kanji being the only basic meal many starving civilians could afford to eat during last stages of war.
PEOPLE OF IRANAPALEI
This story is from the May 21, 2020 edition of Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka.
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