The Long Shadow of War: The Struggle for Justice in Postwar Sri Lanka – Report
ASIA--PACIFIC, 1 Jun 2015
Oakland Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 May 2015 – This report, authored by Anuradha Mittal, is based on research and fieldwork conducted between January 2014 and April 2015. Frédéric Mousseau provided valuable editorial inputs. The author is grateful to Peiley Lau, Elizabeth Fraser, and Alice Martin-Prével for providing research assistance. We are grateful to individuals who assisted with research and fieldwork in Sri Lanka, who remain unnamed to ensure their safety. Thank you!
We want to especially acknowledge people who met with us and shared their tragic experiences despite living in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in the politically charged environment prior to the January 2015 elections. This report is dedicated to them and the families of thousands of others who went missing during and after the war.
The bloody civil war that ravaged Sri Lanka for 26 years officially ended in 2009 with the defeat of the minority Tamil separatists, led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The conflict, in which the LTTE opposed the government led by the majority Sinhalese Buddhists, killed around 200,000, led to the displacement of more than a million people, destroyed infrastructure across the country, and took a heavy toll on the lives and livelihoods of the population of the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
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See also: I Speak without Fear: Where Are Our Loved Ones Who Have Been Abducted, Arrested, and Disappeared?
Statements from the panelists on the international telepress conference call, May 28, 2015
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