"You who live safe,
In your warm houses,
You who find, returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man…" - Primo Levi (If this is a Man)

The next cycle of the ‘Tamil problem’ has commenced unseen and unheeded, in the rain clogged internment camps up North.

The timing of the monsoon season was no secret, and yet hardly a thought was given by the authorities to its all too predictable consequences. The monsoons have barely begun and already most of the camps are deluged by rain water, placing every basic facility, from cooking to sanitation, beyond the reach of their wretched inmates.

The seasonal rains will cause floods in many parts of Sri Lanka; but unlike other affected citizens, the more than 250,000 Tamils in the Northern ‘welfare villages’ cannot leave their inundated places of residence for shelter and dry ground. Imprisoned by barbed wire fences and gun toting soldiers, the IDPs have no choice but to bear this latest horror just as they have borne every other calamity, with sullen, festering silence.

Demanding Protection of the Rights of Tamils in Sri Lanka

Fasting and Public Meeting

on 19^th Sep 2009 at North - West Veli Streets’ Junction, Madurai 

The Sri Lankan government had declared that the war against terrorism has been comprehensively won by its armed forces. But it has put 300,000 Tamil people inside barbed wire camps. It gave itself 180 days for resettlement of people in their native places. It is more than 100 days now. What is the condition of the Tamil people inside those barbed wire camps?

• Displaced in their own land as refugees, inside the barbed wire camps, 300,000 Tamil people are languishing. Vauniya and Mannar hospitals are filled with wounded people who have lost their hands and legs and are awaiting medical assistance.