An early start to the day for the children meant having eaten and getting on our way by 1000. We are in the care of three welcoming hosts and they took us into Jaffna. We got to see the library (from a distance) and explored the fort. Also we heard about it’s more recent history, from when it was involved in the Civil war.
I have learned a lot about this from the Tamil side, but it was interesting and moving hearing the Sinhalese side of things. Bear in mind that during our trip we also saw victims of the war. Seeing amputees begging is a remnant of the war that cost too many Sri Lankan lives. Yes, this cost was mostly Tamil, but the murder of civilians is never right, be that in the Sri Lankan civil war or on the streets of London when terrorists kill civilians in ‘revenge’ attacks.
