http://cimogg-srilanka.org/other-relevant-contributions/
Elmore Perera to LLRC, 10 November 2010:

”… The 1983 racial riots were a disaster. I need say no more. Overnight, Tamils were treated as being sub-human. Many of those who could leave the country by lawful or even unlawful means did so. Those who remained were subjected to arbitrary, humiliating treatment. Rounding up of 30 to 40 Tamil youth on Friday evenings, producing them before Magistrates to be remanded, and later releasing them on bail, after they had paid lawyers Rs1,000/- each for this purpose, was a regular occurrence in many parts of the city. Tamils, who could readily be identified as such from their National Identity Cards, were at the mercy of the law-enforcement agencies which arbitrarily enforced even laws of their own making….”

Luxmy,

There were 25,000+ Sinhalese living in Jaffna in 1971. Check the census.

They were first chased away by the Vadukodai resolution (1976) which was a carbon copy of the 1935 Nuremberg Resolution. Sinhala population in Jaffna fell to 4,800 by 1981. Then the LTTE chased away them too.

Talking of relative rights!

Colombo district has more than 400,000 Tamils but Jaffna zero Sinhalese. Relative rights!

Every soldier family to get Rs 100,000 for the third child. There is nothing relative here. There are thousands of Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim soldiers in the Sri Lanka army. Sadly, LTTE was Tamil only.

History is created (and written) by winners. – An old proverb

Why most Muslims from jaffna opt not to go?

Because their movable and immovable property have been robbed. This is worse than 1983 riots. Rioters only robbed movable property and damaged immovable property but still left the land to the owners. Not the case in Jaffna where the land too was robbed. The same happened to the 25,000+ Sinhalese in Jaffna.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/28/sri-lanka-army-military
100,000-rupee (£570) bonus for every soldier having a third child

(Very curious not to find this info in other than this article).

1.No government policy has been stated on returning Muslims to the North for nearly 15/20yrs after the LTTE were driven out of Jaffna which has been getting higly militarised(LTTE evicted the Muslims from the North. Some Muslims may not like to get throttled in the militarised Jaffna peninsula and would prefer to stay in Puttalam and other areas.
2.Hundreds of Sinhalese taking up residence in Jaffna railway station and other lands near army camps have been helped by the army to take a foothold in Jaffna.

UDA tries to evict the poor in Colombo to get the land for investors.

http://www.peace-srilanka.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=240:the-importance-of-countervailing-power&catid=1:latest&Itemid=121
”This asymmetry reflects the ethnic conflict and points to one of its roots, which is the inability of the people living in the North and East to non-violently bring their difficulties to the problem-solving attention of the successive governments.”

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/01/30/hypocrisy-at-the-university-of-colombo/
University Council can cancel HR meeting without giving reason.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11328159
Young Tamils in Sri Lanka ‘being held without charge’, 16 September 2010:
”A retired senior diplomat in Sri Lanka says several thousand young people of the Tamil ethnic minority are being held in custody without any charges being brought against them. Nanda Godage said some had been incarcerated in this way for years.”

Provincial Governor(appointed by the President) overrides Provincial Council(elected by the people) in Eastern Province:
http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/11/joint_holistic_and_longsighted.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123333480794533919.html