02/01/2012
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Caravan Magazine
***EDITOR'S PICK*** ON THE AFTERNOON OF 19 MAY 2009, at around 1:20 pm, a ration shop accountant named Sivarajan ran to the front of the winding lunch queue in the Anandakumaraswami Zone 3 refugee camp to serve rice and sodhi, a watery concoction of chillies and coconut milk. Swarna, a former militant, sat in her tent nearby, yelling at her mother for having told an
army man from the morning shift that their family belonged to Mullaitivu, on the northeastern coast, where the war between the Sri Lankan Army and the separatists—“Tigers,” she called them—was still raging.
At that moment, they got a text message on their mobile phones from the government’s information department. Addressed to all Sri Lankans, it proclaimed, in Sinhala—a language neither Sivarajan nor Swarna could read—that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the man who led a 26-year-long separatist battle for a Tamil Eelam (state), had been killed by the army in a lagoon just a two hours drive north of where they were. So when the news was announced in Tamil over a loudspeaker that evening, they did not believe it. When it finally sank in, they realised—neither with remorse nor relief, but mere wonder at its very possibility—that in an instant the war they had been born into had left their lives.
Nothing would ever be the same again.
08/09/2011
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Headlines Today
Headlines Today correspondent Priyamvatha travelled (undercover) to Vanni, the former stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels in north Sri Lanka, to unravel the facts behind the claims and counterclaims in the land that was witness to one of the worst war crimes committed on civilians anywhere in the world.
08/02/2011
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National Fisheries Solidarity Movement
young boy has taken the burden of feeding ten membered family in a village of Jaffna district. 17 year old Muththaiya Dharshan work as construction worker and live in temporary shelter built in some one else's land. The family from Valikamauam North, have been shifted to vanni during war in 90s, after the end of war they have reach to home town hoping to resettle in their own land, but the land still inside the high security zone barbwires (HSZ).
05/13/2011
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TamilNet
Even the small section of the former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who have been released so far in batches, following prolonged harassments, find themselves further harassed and mentally tortured now by the occupying Sri Lankan military in Jaffna and Vanni. Medical sources in Jaffna say that the inhuman treatment meted out on the former Tiger members by the occupying military and the psychological harassment drives many of them to depression.
01/17/2011
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IRIN
COLOMBO, 17 January 2011 (IRIN) - Widespread flooding in Sri Lanka has grabbed the headlines, but in the north of the country a more long-term problem is the absence of pipe-borne water for tens of thousands of civilians returning to the former conflict zone, known locally as the Vanni.
12/07/2010
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Tamil Daily
Sri Lanka Government has directed the United Nations officials to close the UNICEF, UNHCR offices in Ki’linochchi district in the North, and Trincomalee in the East before the end of this year, and to move the administrative functions to offices located outside NorthEast, civil society sources in Jaffna said. The sources fear that Colombo’s action is part of its longer term strategy to rid of all NGO offices in the NorthEast.
During the period of intense war in Vanni, the UN Office functioning inside Vanni was moved south to Vavuniya, outside the areas of combat. However, after the war ended Colombo refused to allow the UN officials to reopen in the previously operated premises.
UNICEF has administrative control over four schools in Pa’lai and Ki’linochchi areas. UNICEF will maintain its functions working from its Jaffna offices, sources said.
World Food Program continues to distribute rations in Vanni area.
Jaffna, Kilinochch, Trincomalee, UN, UNICEF, Vanni, Vavuniya
09/23/2010
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TamilNet
Local Non-government Organizations (NGOs) in North and East in Sri Lanka face the risk of becoming inactive due Sri Lanka government’s new restrictions on registering or renewing the registration of such organizations, NGO circles said. These NGOs should submit applications to register themselves or to renew registration to Sri Lanka President’s Action Committee and Sri Lanka Defence Ministry for their approval to function, according to the new procedure imposed on them. The local NGOs serve local people in need with the assistance of International Organizations. Securing the required approval of the above authorities is not easy as Sri Lanka government generally views the local NGOs as agencies of foreign elements opposed to it, NGO circles in Jaffna said.
aid, Defence Ministry, displacement, East, economy, IDPs, Jaffna, NGOs, north, president, regulations, Vanni
09/19/2010
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Sunday Observer
The ex-media spokesman of the now defunct LTTE, Daya Master wants the Tamil Diaspora to help the Northern Tamils to stand on their own. Nothing was achieved through the 30-year-old arms struggle, he said.
08/26/2010
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Sunday Leader
The first prize winner is a displaced child from Vanni who acted as a helpless woman who lost her husband and all her children.
07/28/2010
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems
Collective trauma in the Vanni- a qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka
Daya Somasundaram
Department of Psychiatry, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka