Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  May 8, 2008	Fate of the Displaced - Mannar
As soon as the security forces arrived at Arrippu, in September 2007, we were escorted out of our villages, some with personal belongings many with only what they were wearing. We sheltered at Nanattan School for 15 days. We made a request to the area commander through our GA Mn & DS...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Apr 28, 2008	Doesn’t she have the right to live with her daughter?
My mother in law, age 55 is from Kalliyaddy, Mannar, (an LTTE controlled area) came to live with her daughter, who is married to me in Sinnakarishal, Pesalai on 15.01.08. Kalliyady is in LTTE controlled area with around 500 families. Life there has been extremely difficult for her and during the...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Apr 8, 2008	Current ground situation in Mannar, Sri Lanka
View Larger Map Ruki Fernando of the Law and Society Trust speaks about the present situation in Mannar, Sri Lanka. Click here for the video in Sinhala and here for more videos from Vikalpa Video. For more articles by Ruki on the embattled North and East of Sri Lanka,...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Mar 28, 2008	A narrow escape and a great tragedy
I am the director of a convent in Madhu. Our convent was shifted from Adampan to Madhu at the end of January this year due to the heavy shelling & aerial attacks by the security forces. There were 25 school children with me in the convent in Madhu including 300 families also sheltered at the...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Mar 28, 2008	My abducted brother found in Colombo National Hospital
An armed group abducted my younger brother this month. He was 25 years old. They came in a van in early February at around 8.30 in the night. I am the eldest son in my family and I returned to Mannar after my marriage. After one year I told my parents to come down to Sri Lanka since a...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Dec 5, 2007	Civilian cost of a humanitarian operation: miseries of liberated peoples of Musali and Naanatan divisions in Mannar waiting to go home
“We were not poor, we had our own house, we earned a reasonable income to feed ourselves and our children, but now, we have been forced to be poor and depend on others to feed our children and ourselves, and have no place to stay, our village is occupied by the Sri Lankan armed forces” was...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Aug 8, 2007	“I pray God that no one in this world should face the hardships, faced by my child and me”
“registration” Eachchilampattai, Trincomalee Sri Lanka. IDP registration point. this young girl and her family had to flee from their village. They had to walk 36 km to reach this school where hundereds other families are accommodated following escalation of violence last month...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Jul 27, 2007	The Indo-Lanka Accord - Some reflections 20 years hence
ඉන්දු ලංකා ගිවිසුම (1987 ජූලි- 2007 ජූලි): අවස්ථාවක්ද? බලහත්කාරයක් ද? “ඉන්දු ලංකා ගිවිසුමෙහි දසවන සංවත්සරය අවස්ථාව...... [view]

Posted By:  yajitha Posted On:  Jul 10, 2007	Homeless in one’s homeland
Photo credit: Agron, from Portraits of Displacement Worldwide, those rendered homeless and destitute by violent conflict is growing. According to UNHCR statistics, the figure of Internally Displaced Persons stood at over 32 million at the end of 2006. In Sri Lanka’s case, many of those...... [view]