This is an incident occurred on 28th November 2007 at about 5.55p.m at the Nugegoda Junction, near to the NOLIMIT Garment Shop situated near the Kohuwala-High Level Road Junction, about 10km from the City of Colombo.

A parcel had been identified without an owner which had been kept at the parcel counter of the shop and an employee named W. A. Prabath Weerasinghe who worked there as a security guard having observed it, had informed a Police Constable who was on duty nearby and the said police officer having tried to open the parcel which had exploded and thereby caused death to 22 persons and injuries to nearly 40 persons.

This is a genocide which had been caused by the Tiger Terrorists against the raciest war in the North, with the aid of parcel bomb to destroy the lives of the people in South and to thereby disrupt the operation in the North.

My elder sister’s daughter Shanika Oshadi Pilessage was residing at Pannipitiya. She was employed in a private institution at Pita Kotte and has been residing at our house from short time. She was engaged to be married to one Anjana Danushka residing at Pita Kotte. On the day that the Bomb exploded at the No Limit shop at Nugegoda on 28-Nov-2007 she left home at about 7.00a.m as usual to go for work. Usually she comes home after work by about 7.00p.m . As she did not come that day, on inquires made by me I came to know that a bomb exploded at the No Limit shop at Nugegoda. Therefore we were excited and gave a call to her mobile phone but there was no answer and we were frightened and having come to know that the injured and the dead were taken to the hospital and when we checked by going to Kalubowila Hospital, I identified the the bodies of my elder sister’s daughter Pilessage and the body of Anjana Danushka who was engaged to be married to her. About 20 persons had died from the bomb and the bodies were lying at the hospital. I came to know that another two of the injured died thereafter.

The age of our child Oshadi Pilessage is 25 years. They would have get caught to this bomb whilst she was coming forward after getting down from the bus halt near the No Limit shop. I identified her body and after the legal proceedings was over brought her body home for the funeral. I came to know that including the pedestrians on the road, about 22 persons died and 40 were injured due to this bomb. I came to know that a parcel without an owner was found at the counter of the No Limit shop and that is exploded when a Police Constable attempted to check it and a great destruction of lives and property was caused by it.

In the war against the Tiger Terrorist in the North, the steps take by the Tiger Terrorists to destroy the community of the South are numerous. We believe this bomb is one such thing. I believe that our unmarred child Shanika Oshadi Pilessage died due to a bomb of the LTTE .

My son worked at the No Limit fashion store as a security guard and looked after me, his mother and farther. He was very conscious about his duties and he sacrificed his life while performing his duties.

My son Indika was a handsome youth. His sudden death due to a bomb explosion by the LTTE Tamil tiger terrorists is an unbearable to me as a mother. After the explosion, my son face had got discolored due to burns. The sight of his dead body is haunting me day and night. I will have to live with theses unbearable memories until my death.

My son was everything to me. Therefore, after loosing my everything, I live for the sake of living.

That day she got late to come home. She used to walk up to High Level road from Kohuwala and traveled to Homagama by office transport van, which picked her up near the Bank of Ceylon building at 6.00p.m. When we heard about the explosion at the No Limit shopping complex, we tried to contact her by calling her mobile phone. However when there was no answer, we called one of her friend who travel in the same van with her. She told us that she did not come to the usual place where she used to get into the van. As there was a big rush after the explosion, vehicles were not allowed to stop. When we called one of her office friend, she told us that at the time of the explosion she might have seemed near the spot.

We had no other place to look for her except the Kalubowila Hospital. We went there search of her to all the wards but she was no to be seen. Ultimately, we had no choice but to go to the hospital mortuary where we found her dead body.

After her father’s un-timely death, she was the only salvation for the family. We lost all our hopes and Vichithra lost her life due to the ruthless activities of the LTTE Tamil Tiger terrorists who have no sympathy or regard the lives of innocent people.