I was born in Vangala. There were seven in my family; five boys and 2 girls. Because of the ethnic conflict we went to India in 1986 and came back in 1987. When the Indian army came, the people were running everywhere. They shot my elder brother. As he didn’t die, they stabbed him with a poison knife. When we complained about it to the Government, they asked whether we had witnesses. Seven months after my other brother died in Pesalai in the war. In 1990 we went again to India. We went separately. We sold everything and paid money to go. When we went to India we had only Rs.100/=. We searched for one another and found each other after six months. My studies were completely lost.