My feeling is extremely sad. I am shocked and
devastated. We sought to find a refuge in a peaceful country and found New
Zealand as the best option we could choose. We are as immigrants who settled here
with our kids had been enjoyed the solidarity of this wonderful nation. The reality
of our past was, such as those Muslim people who have been looking for a way
out for escaping from the terror, brutality, massacre, extremism of our own
country. Twenty three years ago we landed on this soil and lived without fear. Since
yesterday I’m totally shattered and broken. My dream of fearless peaceful life
has fragmented by this inhuman brutality. The worshipers in the mosque are
strangers but migrants who moved to New Zealand with the bundles of hopes to get
achieved. The place where this horrendous act has happened is far away but the
painful feeling is so closed to my heart. I’m extreemly sadned. Fear crawling again into my mind because I’m in the same point which I sought after to escape from.
Mallika M Bandara
15. 03. 2019
