Hambantota, Memories Of A Tsunami Devastated Town – By Sunimal Perera Image Source : hdcc “And when one weeps with eyes of welling tears. Remembering a realm of pristine charm. The thoughts languish on some fond bygone years. The sadness rife surveying nature’s harm. A heavy heart now beats in soft refrain, To quell the surging ghosts of this terrain !” This is Hambantota Bay (Photo may be unavailable) looking in a southerly direction from where approximately the local fishmarket used to stand in the fish market stood in the 60’s as I recall , and all that is left now as depicted is a wasteland of debris, desolation and emptiness which epitomizes what the Tsunami left behind in Hambantota as part of its sad legacy which also traversed a vast stretch of the coastal belt of Sri Lanka in a trail of horror and devastation never before seen in such ...