Author: Ruki Fernando

Batticaloa: Despair of the displaced and disappeared and the euphoria of elections and â€œliberationâ€

â€œReturn my husband you abducted before you ask for my vote” (Plea to the TMVP-UPFA, from a Batticaloa women) The government had claimed it had â€œliberated” the East, completed a 180 days…

Ruki Fernando on 02/21/2008

Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict

Jaffna: Tears, blood and terror

Few weeks before I went to Jaffna, Jehan Perera of the National Peace Council had visited Jaffna and captured the powerful testimony of one airline passenger saying Ã¢Â€Âœthe only thing we can…

Ruki Fernando on 12/11/2007

IDPs and Refugees, Mannar, Peace and Conflict

Civilian cost of a humanitarian operation: miseries of liberated peoples of Musali and Naanatan divisions in Mannar waiting to go home

Ã¢Â€ÂœWe 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…

Ruki Fernando on 12/06/2007