The insurgency period

A mother speaks about the atrocities that took place during the JVP insurrection.

In this area, oh, God…! Doors of houses had to be closed at six or seven in the evening. There were lots of troubles. In an emergency… we come out from the back of the house and not from the front side. All our identity cards were also collected by them. No boy was safe, somehow, they were recruited to it. It was the JVP group. So, the boys would talk to them, even unwillingly…. but they had to go. At that time, in this area and from all the places around here, they captured young boys and conducted lectures and this and that… everywhere.