some months journalist and author of the book this divided island which profiles post-war salonga some of this really good to have you on the program with us now in writing your book you met many like some there are crossed. did you get a sense from them that they really believed they would get from the government on what happened to their loved ones. i felt that there was a split kind of psychology working over here i think like at a larger level everybody knew the kind of state that they were dealing with the reluctance of the state to divulge any details about the kind of people who are missing but at the same time it's human psychology and this is not this is where not just in sri lanka but from the world in conflict zones it is human psychology to want confirmation of your loved ones see it even if it is a confirmation of that death so that in my eyes and i felt that you know that little human part of them was still holding out for news or confirmation or some kind of signal that the government knew exactly what had happened to them you speak about human psychology and hope now th