{"id":108187,"date":"2013-09-30T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T05:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=108187"},"modified":"2013-10-06T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T18:44:50","slug":"ive-lost-all-hope-that-i-can-have-a-life-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ive-lost-all-hope-that-i-can-have-a-life-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve Lost All Hope That I Can Have A Life Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Emily+Howie&amp;x=7&amp;y=5\">Emily Howie<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104191\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-boat-migration-to-australia-motivations-and-dilemmas\/emily-howie\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-104191\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104191\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-104191\" title=\"Emily Howie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Emily-Howie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Emily-Howie-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Emily-Howie-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Howie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brami\u00a0has rushed from work to meet me. She arrives on her bike and tells me she must be home soon to care for her three children. We sit down to talk in a small office in a village in Sri Lanka\u2019s Northern Province, beneath the unforgiving glare of a bare light bulb. Very soon it is dark outside.<\/p>\n<p>Brami, who is thirty-six but looks much younger, is quiet and well-dressed, and smiles frequently as we talk. Although she seems a little nervous, she wants to tell me about her experiences as a Sri Lankan Tamil, a widowed mother of three children, and a survivor of Sri Lanka\u2019s three-decade civil war. 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