Members of the independent women active group attach to Davasarana women collectives visited Jaffna peninsula from September 16th to 18th.
Devasarana assisted in coordination and organizing. 43 female and 8 male members participated in the tour,
Ponmalan Rajesvarie, chief of the organizer for gender and nursery education in Mullai. Vallipuram - Jaffna dedicated to organize the journey on behalf of the people of north.
All members bore some expenses and they brought rice and coconuts to be given their friends in Jaffna very frankly.
The group initiated the dialogue with women team in Karainagar in Jaffna, next sharing the experience and built-up the friendship among them. Tthen all visited the Buddhist temple in Nagadeepa and Hindu temple in Nallur.
Member of the women group A.L.M.Padmani talked about her experience, “All the teams of southern parts who visited Jaffna in post war main purpose is to see signs of the victory and how their solders defeated the Tamil rebels. It’s a drastic situation for Tamil people who lost their life and wealth. We got opportunity to meet a group of women in Karainagar involving self employment with credits from the money lenders. They have to pay high interest, because they organized only for money, then we were sharing the experience with them, about our own revolving found and how its work for benefit to the women members in our group. And we also explain to them our aim is rise our voice for the rights of the women, children and farmers, we realized how war machine destroyed the life of the people and through their frustration, our responsible is work together for stop war forever, Mullai dialogue thought to us what kind of hoarer roamed around them”.
The idea of the Makala who met in Karainagar. Number of visitors from southern parts in the island to Jaffna for look rubbles and ruins of faces of the northern people, but we respect to you, because only you talked and sharing the tears of our eyes, over flowing blood in our hearts, we have been suffering from war for many year and generations. Our life is lighted by your group through love and loyalty. We have done only self employment; through high interest loan from money lenders, we did not have any intention to go collecting women for develop our own fund and rights, but your experience so deference, and very wealthy, that kind of experience lead us to build up our own found.”
The discourse in Mullai – Vallipuram was very sensitive, because number of family members joint for the discussion who are the real victims in last war at Vanni district, women says 86,000 widows in northern peninsula, in case of drastic war. A girl participated to the discourse try to ignoring the Sinhala women without talking or paying any interest to them, she hate to Sinhala people, because of she only seen Sinhala military men with fire arms, then our discussion gone deep her mind changed, and began to talk. “When I was a child my father was killed by the State security forces, I was a eye witness of that incidence, then and now I hate to Sinhala people, I have never seen any Sinhala people except military, I was in IDP camp now I am living with my relations in their house, preparing to AL exam. Up to now I never talk to Sinhala people, but this discussion changed my mind, I think ordinary Sinhalese also human been with reasonable and right thinking, now I ashamed why I hate to all Sinhala people? And she sang a song very happily. She told that Writer of the song once lived in same IDP camp, which lost mother and father in war. The lyric of the song says their parents far away from them, but love is still with their hearts, they never come back to see us, we know one thing they looking for us forever. All busting tears on their eyes, but silence voices began to talk, then we say to them god bay
