Sri Lanka’s War Widows Are Clearing Its Land of Mines

Sri Lanka’s War Widows Are Clearing Its Land of Mines

Ravikumar Thamil Selvi remembers running through the forest carrying her 4-year-old daughter in her arms. It was 2009, at the brutal culmination of 26 years of civil war in Sri Lanka. Then 21 years old, Thamil Selvi and her husband were running for their lives after the Sri Lankan army launched an attack on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) separatist group near their village, Theravil, in the north of the island. They were heading for…