Choking Through Smoke

I was wounded in my stomach by the bombing. What I can’t forget is that after I was wounded, I was running and I didn’t even know I was wounded, and then I saw another girl lying down. A tree branch had fallen on her arm and her leg was attached only by a little tissue. She was screaming for someone to also carry her and go, so I carried her out and we escaped. She’s alive now and she doesn’t remember me, but other girls told her it was me who saved her and we met each other later.

Now I don’t want to go to school because in my class there are only two girls, me and my friend Nanthini, and Nanthini died in the bombing so now I don’t like to go. My parents want me to go to school but I don’t want to go because I’m always thinking about her. I will go when my wounds heal, but it will be very hard for me.

I’m angry with the Sri Lankan Army for this because they should have known they were bombing students. They’re attacking students because in the future, it will be students who are joining the LTTE, so to stop that, the Army attacks like this.

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