A summer in series/Talents from here and elsewhere (2). Rammiya Kandiah, the refugee hairdresser

2023-07-28 04:04:00

It’s a dented life that little Rammiya Kandiah lived in the north of her native country, Sri Lanka. Holder of a baccalaureate, she dreamed of being an accountant. But the forced marriage did not allow her to follow this path, and war and violence forced her to leave her country.

“I am a Tamil and considered a slave by other Sinhalese, it is a very difficult condition. We Tamils ​​form what we call the Tigers, as early as 1972, and the Lions are the other inhabitants of our country”, explains Rammiya Kandiah. The Tiger rebellion, launched in 1983, was definitively put down in 2009. This conflict left at least 200,000 dead for a country of 22 million inhabitants, hundreds of thousands of…

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