My son and I went to cut grass...

A mother from Samanthurai speaks about her most painful experience, the abduction of her son.

I was born in this house in Sammanthurai. I had 8 brothers. I married at the age of 16. I had 8 children. When they took my eldest son, he was 16. My husband was sick. So my son and I went to cut grass. Up to now, he is nowhere to be seen. The army told us, that they didn’t take him, when we persisted, they hit my husband.