We don't get proper meals. Uncleaned vegetables and rice containing sand are cooked for us. We get only two government newspapers. Political books are not allowed. We get only one or two toilets in each hall.
Sanitary conditions are terrible.
There is a doctor in the prison hospital but the doctor doesn't understand our language. Even if we are admitted to hospital we have to sleep on the ground. The prison administration keeps Sinhala-speaking prisoners, convicted of ordinary crimes, here to do the cooking. In 1997, Tamil-speaking prisoners were attacked by these criminal prisoners. The prison officers here are communal-minded and at any time they may instigate violence against us using these criminal prisoners.