Besieged, Displaced, and Detained

Map of Sri Lanka

I. Summary

Note on Methodology

II. Background: Return to War

Concerns about Civilian Casualties

III. Government Detention Camps for Displaced Persons

Kalimoddai and Sirunkandal detention camps

International law on detaining displaced persons

Proposed expansion of the detention policy

Detention of recent arrivals in Vavuniya and Jaffna

A Note on Displacement and Other Figures Used in this Report

IV. Humanitarian Needs in the Vanni and the Forced Departure of the United Nations and Humanitarian Agencies

Current humanitarian needs in the Vanni

Government orders the UN and aid agencies to leave

Government hostility toward the humanitarian community

Humanitarian impact of the UN/NGO withdrawal

V. Recommendations

To the Government of Sri Lanka

To the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) (see our report Trapped and Mistreated for additional recommendations)

To the co-chairs of the Tokyo Donors' Conference (Japan, the European Union, Norway, and the United States) and the World Bank, India, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations

Acknowledgements