Missing Sons

My son, Baheerathan Sivarasa, was a third year university student at Jaffna who went missing. The Army came and kidnapped him... They say they didn't take him, but they did ...It's because they want to wipe out the Tamil race. He only had had one more year in university. He was going to take care of us. Life is very difficult so we needed him to study and then earn a salary for us. He helped at home with everything, taking care of the crops and plants. He never caused any problems, he would always come home quietly and say he had only one more year to study and then he'd be helping to put food on our table...

He studied with fear, saying there are always kidnappings in Jaffna and that they keep asking us questions and we always say we don't know...

-Raththinavathi Sivarasa, 48 years