'During the war, many Tamils fled the north and settled abroad or in other regions of the island. Since the end of the war, many of them have wanted to return and reclaim their land. However, the army has other plans: the appropriated estates have become Military Camps, High Security Zones (HSZ) or Special Economic Zones (SEZ).' http://assets.gfbv.ch/downloads/report_sri_lanka_english.pdf CPA's extensive work on land issues that has been referenced in this report can be accessed here http://..
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and their resettlement are not new phenomena among post-war coun...
Although the Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic problem is deep-rooted and of long-standing origins, in the ...
Enabling resettlement in Akkarai village, Sri Lanka The inhabitants of Akkarai village on the northe...
The military conflict in Sri Lanka may be over officially, but conflict continues as a ‘war without ...
Sri Lanka has been entrenched in a civil war for two decades. As in ethnic conflicts in many other p...
Observers warn that the northeast remains under military occupation and that the army is increasingl...
To escape this climate of fear, it appears that an increasing number of Tamils are fleeing Sri Lanka...
Land has a central place in the post war debates involving resettlement, reconstruction, development...
district in which the settlement is situated (Moneragala District) is very sparsely populated. Furth...
The two races living on the same land come face to face to fight against each other for their own in...
Peace building is rebuilding nations torn by wars or conflicts. Conflicts in Sri Lanka need to be un...
The 2002 Ceasefire Agreement in Sri Lanka has resulted in mass-migration of IDPs back to their place...
The Centre for Policy Brief (CPA) in its most recent policy brief titled ‘Politics, Policies and Pra...
In 2010, 350 families of farmers and fisherfolk living in Paanama, a coastal village in the east of ...
ELLIPALLAI, 19 June 2015 (IRIN) - As a young girl, Kasthuri Udayakumaran’s grandmother would tell he...
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and their resettlement are not new phenomena among post-war coun...
Although the Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic problem is deep-rooted and of long-standing origins, in the ...
Enabling resettlement in Akkarai village, Sri Lanka The inhabitants of Akkarai village on the northe...
The military conflict in Sri Lanka may be over officially, but conflict continues as a ‘war without ...
Sri Lanka has been entrenched in a civil war for two decades. As in ethnic conflicts in many other p...
Observers warn that the northeast remains under military occupation and that the army is increasingl...
To escape this climate of fear, it appears that an increasing number of Tamils are fleeing Sri Lanka...
Land has a central place in the post war debates involving resettlement, reconstruction, development...
district in which the settlement is situated (Moneragala District) is very sparsely populated. Furth...
The two races living on the same land come face to face to fight against each other for their own in...
Peace building is rebuilding nations torn by wars or conflicts. Conflicts in Sri Lanka need to be un...
The 2002 Ceasefire Agreement in Sri Lanka has resulted in mass-migration of IDPs back to their place...
The Centre for Policy Brief (CPA) in its most recent policy brief titled ‘Politics, Policies and Pra...
In 2010, 350 families of farmers and fisherfolk living in Paanama, a coastal village in the east of ...
ELLIPALLAI, 19 June 2015 (IRIN) - As a young girl, Kasthuri Udayakumaran’s grandmother would tell he...
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and their resettlement are not new phenomena among post-war coun...
Although the Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic problem is deep-rooted and of long-standing origins, in the ...
Enabling resettlement in Akkarai village, Sri Lanka The inhabitants of Akkarai village on the northe...