Tuesday, January 06, 2009
A Country Under Lockdown
In Fire Inside, Marilyn Krisyl writes about Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka. The Guernica article recounts Krysl's experience as a volunteer bodyguard for Peace Brigade International in the 1990s. Learn what "a country under lockdown" means to a refugee camp mother who slowly loses her children to a war between Aryans and Arabs, Sinhalese and Tamil, Hindu and Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu.
