Social stigma should be seared in the flames
Marching towards a sun-lit path of happiness :
It is a haunting melancholy to hear that suicide
has become a social peril in Sri Lanka with 6000-8000 persons
committing suicide annually, the highest suicidal rate in the world.
According to statistics, there was a slight decline in the suicide
rate in the years 2001 and 2002, though the real figure has not been
adequately reported.
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"Please re-open our ruined school in Madawatchchiya"
In 1985, LTTE terrorists burned down all 85
houses of the village, Kala Siyambalawa, in Neeriyakuluma, Vavuniya,
and killed three Sinhalese peasants. They also burned down this
school. The Sinhalese living in this village and nearby, ran away
and lived as refugees in the district of Anuradhapura. With it, this
school which had 70 students and living quarters for teachers
remained a burned down affair.
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