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Photos from the Peace Counts Report in Sri Lanka
- A bloody civil war...
- Sri Lanka - destruction from the war
- Ghost country...
- One and a half million landmines...
- Rohini Narasingham...
- Children like little Ravindran...
- The conflict...
- War victims...
- The aim of SEED...
- Foreign aid organizations...
- Becoming dependent...
- When the Berlin wall came down...
- In a mud hut...
- Alternative ideas...
- The first German donations...
- The SEED team...
- Back then...
- The need is enormous...
- Economic recovery...
- Watched by armed guards...
- The most necessary things...
- We have to learn...
- An oasis...
- The leftovers...
- A headstrong commune...
- On the inside...
When the Berlin wall came down...
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When the Berlin wall came down, things changed for Singham, too. In the area around the German capital, attacks on foreigners became more frequent. Arson in refugees’ quarters, Africans murdered. “If I’m risking my life,” he said to himself, “then not passively, just because of the color of my skin. Then I prefer to risk it actively, and to do something for my country.” Not an easy decision – Sri Lanka was thousands of kilometers away and for him, at that point, an unfamiliar culture.