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The camps were known for their poor conditions and incidents of sexual violence by the Sri Lankan security forces. [201] An international aid worker who regularly visited the Manik Farm internment camp in Vavuniya District between January and May 2009 reported on multiple rapes committed by the security forces against Tamil women in the camps ...
The final stages of the war created 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were transferred to camps in Vavuniya District and detained there against their will. [370] The camps were surrounded by barbed wire. This, together with the conditions inside the camps, attracted much criticism from inside and outside Sri Lanka. [371]
The final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War created 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were transferred to camps in Vavuniya District and detained there against their will. [1][2][3] This process, together with conditions inside the camps and the slow progress of resettlement attracted much concern and criticism from inside and ...
Between 5th century BC and 13th century AD, present day Vavuniya District was part of the Rajarata historical region. Vavuniya District was thereafter ruled by Vanniar Chieftains who paid tribute to the pre-colonial Jaffna kingdom. [4] The district then came under Portuguese, Dutch and British control. In 1815 the British gained control of the ...
Vavuniya (Tamil: வவுனியா, Romanized: Vavuniya, Sinhala: වවුනියාව, Romanized: Vavuniyāva) is a city of Vavuniya District in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The municipality is administered by an Municipal Council .
Modern Sri Lankan Tamils descend from residents of the Jaffna Kingdom, a former kingdom in the north of Sri Lanka and Vannimai chieftaincies from the east. According to the anthropological and archaeological evidence, Sri Lankan Tamils have a very long history in Sri Lanka and have lived on the island since at least around the 2nd century BCE .
Murders of student Joseph Yogarajah, Thamotherampillai Manobalan and businessman Ibrahim in Vavuniya: 19 February 1985: Vavuniya: 3: Army [118] Army rampage in Jaffna district: 23 February 1985: Various places in Jaffna District: 2: 8+ injured, 1 car, 1 van, 1 photographic studio destroyed: Army [118] Army rampage in Kallundai: 23 February 1985 ...
Tamils portal. Sri Lanka portal. v. t. e. Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிழீழம், tamiḻ īḻam; generally rendered outside Tamil-speaking areas as தமிழ் ஈழம்) is a proposed independent state that many Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Eelam Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri Lanka. [5][6][7][8][9 ...