before you are afraid that this turns into a monothematic blog of kid pics – these are the last ones i’d like to show from kalmunai. sri lanka again experiences a wave of violence, and the east coast i visited 3 weeks ago is now more or less a no-go-area for foreigners.
those kids have grown up in the civil war, and whilst kalmunai itself has not been in the center of real war-like actions, road block everywhere and killings in the villages have always been present since more than 25 years.
Eye gaze from the plain children Sri Lanka / / Indeed, as this is all eyes gaze of children in the world / / Peace / / regard from Yogyakarta of Indonesia / /
I find all of these images and the ones you have posted at Flicker to all tell a story and feel very moved by reading about the history there.
What a lovely portrait. Great smiles! Love it 🙂
Their eyes seem to show what they have had to endure. Their eyes seem to have lost that innocent childhood glimmer.
Profound shot.