Still in Shock
Now if I’m alone I get bad headaches. And like a movie inside my head, I can see what happened in the bombing. I see the roofs falling down again….In the nights I can’t sleep. I don’t sleep alone because I’m afraid. I can’t forget the example of carrying that girl and then her dying in my arms. Even now I’m afraid this will happen again. I imagine how I would run and escape if this happened again. But I think this experience will just keep happening to the Tamil people. -Kavitha Pareshwaran Read more stories from Sri Lanka |
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We heard the sound of the Kfir planes coming
but not the sound of the bombs dropping.
Because we were listening to the radio that
morning. After the first bomb dropped, I couldn’t
see anything. My mouth was full of dirt. When
the second bomb dropped I was behind some
drawers and told two other girls to come and
stay with me. They said they would stay where
they were. I was wounded in my arm and it was
burning, but I didn’t realize it then. In the second
bombing the other two girls were killed. After
that I don’t know what happened.
Then I remember running outside, and I saw a
wounded girl. I started to carry her further away
to the trees. Then she took a deep breath and
died. I don’t even know who she was. It was fully
dark then. My mouth felt very bitter. I ran to the
trees and hid inside a tree trunk. I saw the uncle
who comes and cooks for us, wearing a white
shirt that had turned red from the blood of his
head wound. He strapped his bag onto a tree and
then fell over and died. All my eyes could see
were people dying everywhere.
