Sri Lanka – the “beach-head” for A Tamil Homeland – Ven. Walpola Piyananda, Chief Sangha Nayake of America

  There are over 100 million ethnic Tamils scattered throughout the world without a “motherland” they can call their own. This has instilled in the Tamil consciousness an unfounded sense of low...

LLRC submission: The Citizens’ Commission on the Expulsion of Muslims from the North by the LTTE in October 1990

  [Editors' note: Submission to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, 4th of November, 2010.] Northern Muslims in Post Conflict Sri Lanka The entire Muslim community of Sri Lanka’s...

Resettle Displaced Muslims in Jaffna, By Sumaiya Rizvi

Iran to help An Iranian delegation was scheduled to arrive in the island today to visit Muslim Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka, who marked 20 years since their eviction from the Jaffna Peninsula recently,...

Sri Lankan Muslims returning home

  The end of the civil war in Sri Lanka last year has given hope to thousands of Muslims exiled from the north of the country by the Tamils. In October 1990, the Tamil Tigers accused the Muslim minority of...

Children of a lesser God, By Jamila Najmuddin

Source from - http://www.dailymirror.lk/print/index.php/opinion1/10710-children-of-a-lesser-god.html Daily Mirror.lk   The forced eviction which took place in Killinochchi and Jaffna in 1990,...

Puttalam Refugees

Twenty years on and hundreds of Muslim IDPs who were forcefully evicted by the LTTE from the north, continue to languish in Puttalam. Still living in temporary shelters, they speak of their plight, fears and the...

இலங்கை வடக்கு முஸ்லிம்களின் பத்தொன்பது ஆண்டுகால அவல வாழ்க்கை, எம்.ஏ.ஹபீழ் இலங்கை.

இலங்கையின் வட புலத்திலிருந்து 85000 க்கும் மேற்பட்ட முஸ்லிம்கள் – தமிழ் பேசும்...

Difficult homecoming for Muslim IDPs

PUTTALAM, 22 March 2010 (IRIN) – Resettlement efforts are under way for thousands of displaced Muslims from Sri Lanka’s north who have been languishing in refugee camps for nearly two decades, officials...

Govt allocates Rs 100m for Northern schools

The Government has allocated Rs100 million to construct school buildings in the Northern Province under the Uthuru Vasanthaya (Northern Spring) project. Construction of 23 school buildings have been completed.  [Uthuru...

Citizen’s Commission: Expulsion of the Northern Muslims by the LTTE in Oct. 1990, by Devanesan Nesiah

Sri Lanka has been increasingly the scene of much ethnic violence. The Northern Muslims are the victims of the earliest large scale act of ethnic cleansing in our history. Close to 80,000 persons, constituting...