Asylum-seeker returns with shattered dreams

Vaithilingam Linagaraja back home with family at Kaddaikadu off Elephant Pass in Jaffna. Pix by T. Premanath

By Chris Kamalendran-Sunday, April 26, 2015

'I have to start a new life … I don't know where to start'

For the past two years, Vaithilingam Linagaraja, a fishermen from Kaddaikadu off Elephant Pass in Jaffna, had been languishing in a refugee camp in Paula New Guinea after his bid to illegally enter Australia failed.

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