A veteran internally displaced person (IDP)
I am a veteran internally displaced person (IDP), if that is a status that I could be given and everybody could be proud of. I am originally from Vavuniya and the conflict…
Author: CHA
Disappearance
As a family we lived amidst many challenges in the past few years never wanting to leave the peninsula which will always be our home. Even though we witnessed very many battles…
Mentally Retarded Beggars – Jaffna Perspective
Peace and normalcy are two essential or even sole ingredients for individual and family happiness and community development. Conflicts and commotions, social upheavals and political unrest denial of equal opportunities and inequality,…
I will not return to my Village
I am originally from Trincomalee. Now I am living in a Tsunami, temporary shelter, in Alayadivembu which is in the Ampara District. My home town is Thoppur, Munampodivattai. We initially became internally…
“I need to move out of this camp and have a place of my own”
Following heavy shelling and bombardment in Point Pedro, we had to evacuate the village leaving all our belongings behind. While we were running for shelter from our home, sounds of artillery were…
We are nobody’s children…
Interview with Mrs. Alisa S. Mirza, Palaviya, Puttlam This camp occupies approx. 70 families evicted from Jaffna in 1990. For the past 17 years we have been completely ignored. If I am…
“I pray God that no one in this world should face the hardships, faced by my child and meâ€Â
“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…
“Some people were shot while going to see their houses on the road like dogsâ€Â
Interview was taken from: MRS.GNANAPRAGASAM ARASAMMAH, 53 years. Displaced from: PALAI NAGAR, MUTHUR 2, Trincomalee Now at the welfare Centre: SRI KONALINGA MAHA VITHYALAYAM IDP’S CAMP – LINGA NAGAR, Trincomalee We all…
“We are not willing to go back to our village, till a permanent solution for the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lankaâ€Â
Interview was taken from: Mrs. Gopalakrishnan Kalaivani, 33 years. On 31st of January 2007 Displaced from: Manalchenai, Muthur Trincomalee Place – Welfare Centre (Cultural Hall Refugee’s Camp, Trincomalee) On the day, when…