"60 year old Somasuntharam Maheswary was knifed to death by Sinhala thugs in Trincomalee on 15 April 2006. She was attending religious duties at Nadesar Temple when a group of Sinhala thugs dragged her from the temple premises and cut her. Her body was later found on the road and handed over to the mortuary of the Trincomalee general hospital." - Sri Lanka State orchestrated violence raises spectre of 1983 pogrom says Tamil National Alliance
Haunted and hunted There she lies in her mother soil Knifed on the back… Her blood spills on the ground Murdered for the crime Of being born a Thamil Tāyi
She falls kissing the soil Alone; alone she dies In the hands of the mob It’s neither the gun nor the knife Its racism that took her life!
She might be… Some one’s mother or a sister Or some one’s belovéd wife She could even be a motherless child But one thing for sure;
She’s a Thamil Tāyi. Alone; in the midst of the crowd she dies
In the hands of racist cries As a nameless Tāyi
For the world at large She’s another fatality A faceless “number” In the nameless statistics
