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Education, Citizenship and Development
Siri Hettige Professor of Sociology University of Colombo Education is recognized the world over as a means of achieving wider...
Continue reading »War IDPs
The IDPs from Trincomalee District are scattered, in the Ampara District. There are few from the Mannar District too. Some...
Continue reading »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...
Continue reading »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,...
Continue reading »Anti-competitive Activities, the source of rice crisis
Rice, which is the staple food in Sri Lanka, has become the subject of a national issue today. Government appears...
Continue reading »No one to listen to our pleas
“The cost of living is sky rocketing like the Kfir jets,” said an old man standing along the road side...
Continue reading »Elections in the East: The dawning of democracy or fostering of violence?
By K. Ratnam It is as if the city of Batticaloa has become a red hot furnace due to the...
Continue reading »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...
Continue reading »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...
Continue reading »The psychological trauma of an age old war
Puthiyavan A recent survey conducted by a social organisation in Savatkadu, Anaikodai Jaffna under a the supervision of a psychiatrist,...
Continue reading »Forgotten IDPs from the North
‘Cries from Puttalam’ For those familiar with the fairytales of the Grimm Brothers, the story of the young girl who...
Continue reading »GRIEVANCES OF AN IDP
Due to the civil war that erupted in the Trincomalee District between the LTTE and the Government forces, the families...
Continue reading »The divide between Muslims and Tamils: Perspective of an IDP
Opinion of Fathima, 24 and mother of one child from Karambe camp in Puttlam “I was eight year -old, when...
Continue reading »‘I want a decent Education’ – A twelve year old’s plea
The field officer was on his usual rounds… visiting camps accommodating internally displaced personnel (IDPs). A young boy trots along...
Continue reading »The cost of liberation…
I do not have any words to express my agony and the untold hardship that I had faced in my...
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