Sri Lankan Civil War
A Case Study of Tamil Refugees in the Sri Lankan Conflict

8-10-2015

Contents
Overview

2

Outbreak of Civil War

3

Rajiv Gandhi’s Assassination

4

Human Rights Violation

5

Refugee Conditions

10

Cost of War

13

Conclusion

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Overview
In Sri Lanka, since the year 1983 the ethnic conflict between the majority
Sinhalese and the minority Tamil has already killed off about 60,000 people, and has also produced some 800,000 internally displaced persons and has forced millions of people to migrate as refugees making them one the world’s largest groups of asylum seekers .This violent environment in the island has brutalized the civil society, giving rise to a climate a chauvinist hysteria and intolerance.
There are also allegations of human rights abuse on the government during the civil war. Due to lack of political motivation, the peace talk between the government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is getting failure and the vicious consequence of this dispute is confronting by the common people. Over the course of the conflict, the displaced Tamil in Sri Lanka sought refuge in India and hundreds of thousands more in the other part of the world. Also the present living conditions of the refugees is inhuman and invites concern on the government’s part.

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Outbreak of Civil War
Supported by the on-going politics of conflict in Sri Lanka, politicised Tamil youth in the north and the east started to form militant groups. These groups developed independently of the Colombo Tamil leadership, and in the end rejected and annihilated them. The most prominent of these groups was the TNT, which changed its name to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or the LTTE in 1976. The
LTTE initially carried out a campaign of violence against the state, particularly targeting policemen and