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The Long Shadow of War: The Struggle for Justice in Postwar Sri Lanka

The bloody civil war that ravaged Sri Lanka for 26 years officially ended in 2009 with the defeat of the minority Tamil separatists, led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The conflict, in which the LTTE opposed the government led by the majority Sinhalese Buddhists, killed around 200,000, led to the displacement of more than a million people, destroyed infrastructure across the country, and took a heavy toll on the lives and...

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I Speak without Fear: Where Are Our Loved Ones Who Have Been Abducted, Arrested, and Disappeared?

In December 2014, the Oakland Institute carried out research and fieldwork in Sri Lanka in order to understand and document the state of land conflicts and displacement amid accusations of land grabs experienced by the Tamils and other minorities at the hands of the Sri Lankan army and the government. While investigating the land grabs, the research team witnessed discrimination, harassment by the police, and horrors of the civil war that...

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Endless War: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Sri Lanka: An Ethnocratic State

As Horrific Abuses & Sexual Violence against Men Continue, it is Time to End the Impunity of the Sri Lankan Security Forces

Sri Lankan Government Fails on Promises of Resettlement, Demilitarization, and Reconciliation

Waiting to Return Home: New Report Reveals Continued Plight of IDPs in Post-War Sri Lanka

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தமிழ் வரலாற்றையும் கலாசாரத்தையும் அழிக்கும் உத்திகள்

Eelanadu Daily

Sri Lanka: Land Grab Designed to Break up Traditional Tamil Land, Says New Report

Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka

New Report Reveals shocking details on land grabbing, Sinhala settlements and militarization in the North and East

Tamil Diplomat

சிங்களக் குடியேற்றம்- பௌத்த விகாரைகள்- யுத்த வெற்றி நினைவுச்சின்னங்கள்- தொல்பொருள் நில ஒதுக்கீடுகள் விசேட பொருளாதார வலயங்கள் என்ற போர்வையில் தமிழ் கலாசாரத்தையும் வரலாற்றையும் திட்டமிட்டு அழிக்கும் உத்திகள் இடம்பெறுகின்றன- சர்வதேச அமைப்பு புதிய அறிக்கை

Thinakkural

'Projection as Protest' in front of UN Headquarters in New York on International Day of Disappeared: TGTE

Lanka News Web

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