Shrapnel in the Heart: I Never Felt by Patrick Camunes

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Location: Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

This blog concerns the Sri Lankans fight against LTTE terrorism.LTTE is a ruthless terror outfit which fights for an ethnically pure, separate Tamil homeland for Tamils living in Sri Lanka since 1983. The outfit is well known for its extreme tribalism and nefarious crimes against soft targets specially the women and children. During its two and half decade long terrorist war against Sri Lankan people, LTTE has killed over 70,000 people mostly civilians in its ethnic cleansing raids, indiscriminate bomb attacks, suicide blasts, etc. LTTE is also in top of the UN's list of shame for using child soldiers in war. As a tactical measure the outfit uses only young female cadres and male child soldiers for the front lines.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

I Never Felt by Patrick Camunes

I never felt . . .

The training and the

Torture I went through . . .

Went with the torture that others suffered

And the pain and death I was taught to inflict.

I never felt . . .

I could take a life . . .

until a 15 year old VC girl crossed my path.

BLOW IT!... BLOW IT!... The orders came down,

The AMBUSH . . . You MUST BLOW It!

I never felt . . .

The taking of a life

And the spilling of blood

Would be what was expected of me . . .

. . . But it was my duty to accomplish the "task".

I never felt . . .

That what I was taught to do

Would cause so much anguish to my soul . . .

And the taking of this single LIFE

Would be a torture and a nightmare . . .

For the rest of my life!

I never felt . . .

. . . innocent

. . . or clean

. . . nor anything at all . . .

'cept

fiend.

By: Patrick Camunes
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