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00:00Putti?

00:01Putti?

00:02You did?

00:03Putti.

00:04Putten.

00:05Putten.

00:06Mama, is Putti still alive?

00:07No, she's not actually.

00:08That's why you didn't get a chance to meet her.

00:09Did she die in the war?

00:10When I was in Sri Lanka, I don't remember my father being around.

00:29The 77 riots and the 83 pogroms was obviously the ground being pulled out from underneath

00:38everybody's lives.

00:41And so that's when my dad left to find us a better place to live, somewhere safe for

00:50us.

00:51When I graduated and started working, people asked me, where are you from?

00:57And I'm saying Sri Lankan Tamil.

00:59And then right away they go, are you a Sri Lankan tiger?

01:03But you guys are terrorists.

01:06My father was a police inspector.

01:10One of the most important events that he has written down was the night before the 1983

01:19riots.

01:23I was afraid to talk about it up until this morning.

01:40The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka denies the very basic freedom of

01:43expression of the Tamils to advocate for their self-determination.

01:48I want to go see the effects of the war with my own eyes.

01:54He just wanted to make sure that I had something with me when I traveled on this trip because

01:59everybody in my family is a little nervous, but including my nephew.

02:03So yeah, here goes.

02:07What's going on?

02:10The CIG is here.

02:13Yeah.

02:14Okay.

02:15Okay.

02:16Okay.

02:17Okay.

02:18And then of course I got on the phone with the Canadian embassy in Sri Lanka.

02:43I would say that I'm Tamil, and that's not anything else but what it is.