"We were all, ready to face anything during the war. We kept the valuables separately to take them with us, when we were displaced from our own place. But we never expected the sea to swallow our loved ones and properties. Most of us thought the war has started again, as soon as we heard the noise of the wave on 26th December 2004 coming into the villages. Now we are destitues, left with nothing" says forty years old Prema Loganathan