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The Gendered Refugee Experience: Inside Camps, Outside Battlefields:Security and Survival for Tamil Women

In May of 2009, images of displaced Tamil people trapped behind the barbed wire of internment camps flashed across the world. “Everybody wanted to get out of those camps, but they were too scared to discuss their rights”, one priest recalls.
The Government of Sri Lanka had just declared a military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (ltte), […]

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By Nimmi Gowrinathan | Published on June 3, 2013 at 8:28 pm


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The Gendered Refugee Experience: Inside Camps, Outside Battlefields:Security and Survival for Tamil Women

In May of 2009, images of displaced Tamil people trapped behind the barbed wire of internment camps flashed across the world. “Everybody wanted to get out ...