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The News of the World sends award-winning reporter Dan McDougall to reveal truth about Sri Lanka's secret refugee camps
REPORTER DAN McDOUGALL: First journalist to report from the Tamil refugee camps
BEHIND THE WIRE: Tamil women and children are held in virtual prison camps
INNOCENT: Children living in fear
ORPHANED BY WAR: A forlorn girl at Uppuveli
THEY squat in a circle, grinding their tiny hands nervously into the mud behind the six foot high barbed wire fence that imprisons them.
And their little eyes stare wide open in fear at what lies on the other side.
Around the infants and their families in the grim surroundings of the Pulmoddai refugee camp in war-torn northern Sri Lanka, the soldiers sit, each one ten yards apart, their AK47 assault rifles trained at the 6,000 terrified refugees huddled inside.
This the terrifying aftermath of Asia's longest civil war - and the News of the World is the first newspaper in the world to witness the human suffering in the controversial camps where Tamil survivors are trapped.
Speaking to us in the belief we were aid workers, the official in charge of the Pulmoddai compound claimed the Tamil women and children were being "held" for their own safety.
"We are protecting these people," he claimed. "This is why there are so many soldiers here. There might be Tamil Tigers in there and we cannot just let them come and go. They have water and shelter and they are happy to be free of the war."
But later a charity worker gave us a very different view: "The children, their mothers, their grandmothers, they can't get out. They are trapped behind barbed wire with guns trained on them, innocent children.
"This is a prison camp, a Nazi-like detention camp that evokes the worst fears of humanity."
And if the children of this bloody war are not being held in camps, they are in a different kind of hell-in orphanages scattered across their war-torn land with no mother or father to comfort them.
Burns
Children whose memories will be scarred forever by what they witnessed.
Like 12-year-old Theverajah Kajenthini who told us: "I saw my mother's body. She was on fire after the shelling and died of burns to her face and neck. Her head was black, it was the last I saw of her."
To get to the terrifying fallout of the 26-year conflict between the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tigers took a 13-hour, 400-mile drive from the west coast capital Colombo along dangerous roads and through more than a dozen heavily militarised checkpoints and cordons-once having to hide in the back of our minivan.
At every stage of our journey the Sri Lankan Military-which has effectively created a border cutting off the north of the island from foreigners-brandished their weapons to try to intimidate us and stop us seeing what they don't want YOU to see.
For here, in the north-east of the South Asian island, is a scene light years away from the pristine tea plantations and golden sandy beaches in the south and west of the island that attract more than 100,000 British tourists a year.
To British honeymooners Sri Lanka is a tropical paradise; to British businessmen it is source of clothing for high street stores like M&S, Next and Gap.
But for the past three decades the former British colony has been gripped by a deadly war that has bitterly split the South Asian nation in two and killed 100,000 people.
It erupted in 1983 after the demands of the minority Tamils for a homeland of their own separate from the Sinhalese were refused. Last week it finally came to a violent and bloody end in the north of the country. And since January, an estimated 7,000 civilians, many of them children, have died in the crossfire at the hands of both sides.
But now the end of the conflict has brought new and terrible suffering for the Tamil people left behind.
Brought down by ship from the former front line 50 miles to the north, the Pulmoddai refugees before us are effectively-as the charity worker said-prisoners of war facing disease and malnutrition.
Further north many tens of thousands more share the same fate in dozens of similar camps.
As the fighting engulfed them, they suffered shelling and aerial bombing as well as torture, rape, mass arrest and now prolonged detention.
In the Pulmoddai camp, children wave from behind the barbed wire fence.
A child no more than two-years-old toddles naked towards the razor wire imprisoning her and her family. Terrified of retribution, parents pull the child away. Many of the refugees are dressed only in rags and tattered clothing. Chicken pox and skin diseases are sweeping through the camp and hepatitis is a growing problem because of poor sanitation.
Around the perimeter, women gather at hastily-constructed water pumps but only one is functioning properly.
Our attempts to interview the detainees through the wire were met with angry threats of imprisonment and deportation by guards.
Two Tamil women shouted "help us" to our translator as we were pushed away from the perimeter fence. Sickened by the violent attempts to stop our access, the charity worker who spoke to us spat out the truth of what was happening here.
He works for ZOA-a non-governmental organisation which helps set up wells and food distribution systems in some of the world's worst trouble spots. He told us the creation of the camp and dozens like it was causing grave concern.
"The Sri Lankan government have said these poor people could be in these camps for another two years, there is a fine line between refugee camps and prisons here," he said. A construction worker, who helped the Sri Lankan army build the camp, told us later at a secret location that locals had effectively been forced to help the army create a prison for the refugees.
"We pass them on the road and they look out at us through the barbed wire. They are absolutely helpless," he said. "They have escaped a war which they had no part in and now they are prisoners.
"The children are the saddest sight of all. They sit by the fence waving at the cars that pass, usually military vehicles."
The UN confirmed this week that as many as 300,000 Tamil refugees are now jammed into the camps dubbed "welfare villages". Western journalists have been banned from going near them.
The Sri Lankan government argues that the last remaining Tamil Tiger fighters remain in the camps and pose a danger to the public. Neil Buhne, the United Nations' top official in Sri Lanka, said he believed there would be no more than a couple of hundred at most.
And James Ross, the legal and policy director of Human Rights Watch, accused the Sri Lankan Government of imprisoning hundreds of thousands of innocent people. He said: "The government appears to view all Tamils as presumptive Tiger supporters."
Meanwhile, along the road from the Pulmoddai camp, is the sound of hammering and the clink of metal. Thousands more tents are being made to house refugees from the north.
And Sri Lankan soldiers are hammering huge wooden stakes into the ground to create another razor wire perimeter fence. Away from the camps, things are little better. We travel 30 miles down the Bay of Bengal coast to Uppuveli which has the most beautiful beach on Sri Lanka's east coast according to the guidebooks.
As the sun sets it certainly looks like an island paradise-a curve of white sand with palm trees and deep emerald water.
If you drive through the jungle in the east, you can see herds of wild elephants crossing the road while long-tailed monkeys watch from the trees. At night, fireflies hang by the roadside. This is the part Sri Lanka tourists know. But no-one comes here any more.
The beach is littered with sewage and hotels are boarded up. As deadly battles have gripped the jungles around the town only foreign aid workers and soldiers pass through.
Growling and menacing packs of dogs roam the empty stretches of sand. The jungle, long burned by government soldiers trying to clear the roads of hiding places for Tamil Tiger guerrillas, is a twisted charred wasteland.
Where tourists once strolled, hundreds of soldiers nervously search for remaining Tamil Tigers who might launch the kind of suicide attacks for which they were renowned.
But nearby there is a human timebomb of misery ticking away.
In the Sivananda Thaovanam Orphanage more than 100 children huddle together, their eyes betraying tragedies they could not easily put into words.
Each youngster had his or her own story, but they all had one thing in common, the death of their parents in war. Four year-old Mohanapriya's eyes lit up as she spoke about her mother and father, telling us how she is waiting for them to come and take her home.
"She is too young to understand they are gone," said one of the orphan directors. "What can we say to her?"
The orphanage looks tattered and shabby, like its inhabitants. The room that serves as their bedroom-a communal hall with peeling paint and a few lockers with broken locks-overflows with secondhand clothes and toys that have seen better days.
The only bed there was piled high with mats, sheets and pillows.
But despite its woeful lack of facilities, Sivananda Thapovanam has been a safe haven for children for more than four years. They are content with the little they receive here-but the real unhapiness is deep within.
Theverajah Kajenthini wiped a tear from her eye as she recounted how she lost her mother, her sister and her aunt when a Sri Lankan government shell hit their home. Several months later her father was executed by "unknown forces"-accused of being a Tamil Tiger sympathiser.
"I don't understand what has happened to me," she said. "Like other children in here I don't talk about the past. I am old enough to know my parents are gone but the younger children laugh and play and tell us their mum and dads are coming back.
"Many of the children in my village became orphans during the fighting. I can't deny what happened to me.
Across the north of Sri Lanka hundreds of such orphanages house the true legacy of Sri Lanka's civil war. With no funding for rehabilitation or counselling the children's fates seem to be sealed at a tragically young age.
"The camps to the north of here are full of children like me I am told," said 11-year-old Mahetevan Suganya.
"At least I have my friends here in the orphanage and I can walk in the garden and play with my toys.
"The director here tells us all we are fortunate to be here and to be protected from the war." Staring out from a picture on the wall are the dead eyes of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Tamil Tigers, killed last week in a final stand against The Sri Lankan military.
At the height of his power, Prabhakaran ruled as a virtual dictator over a shadow state of hundreds of thousands of people in northern Sri Lanka with its own flag, police and court system.
The Sri Lankan President announced to the world last week that it had finished off the last of the rebels in the northern war zone and killed Prabhakaran and his top deputies.
To his followers, Prabhakaran was the steadfast heart of the battle to establish a breakaway state for the ethnic Tamil minority. But his many detractors saw him as the brutal ruler of a suicide cult who repeatedly sabotaged peace deals in pursuit of power.
In more than a quarter-century of civil war, his Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam perfected the science of suicide bombings, assassinated top politicians including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and fought the Sri Lankan government to a near-standstill.
Prabhakaran's guerrilla force was armed with heavy artillery, a rudimentary air wing that once bombed Colombo's international airport, and a squad of suicide attackers.
Explosives
Its navy consisted of small attack craft, suicide boats laden with explosives, crude submarines and huge smuggling ships. The Tamil Tiger rebels reportedly earned as much as £188 million a year from arms and drug smuggling, fake charities and donations from Tamil expatriates.
Prabhakaran rarely appeared in public, preferring to communicate via radio addresses delivered every November.
Tamil Tiger troops, some forcibly recruited when they were children, saw Prabhakaran as their unquestioned leader.
He ordered them to abstain from sex, cut personal ties and carry glass vials of cyanide on a necklace so they could kill themselves upon capture.
Now, as our pictures show, the Tamil women and children they fought for are left to carry on the suffering as virtual prisoners of the government forces who defeated them.
Amnesty International spokeswoman Yolanda Foster said the photographs show how vulnerable children have been left imprisoned in these camps.
After looking at our evidence of the human disaster unfolding in Sri Lanka, she said: "Thousands of children who fled the combat zone are severely traumatised and in need of vital humanitarian assistance and support.
"As long as humanitarian access to the camps is restricted, children remain very vulnerable.
"Life imprisoned in camps is not what the many traumatised and malnourished children need.
"They need support and protection. Humanitarian agencies must be given immediate access or thousands of children's lives remain in jeopardy."
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This article has 171 comments
Dear Don
Thank you very much for bringing the truth.
By thangamalar.. Posted August 16 2009 at 4:09 AM.
Thank you Dan, for your courage and excellent article finally telling the truth to the world. It makes my heart bleed, thinking of the children. I have a son and as a mother it just hurts.
when will there be a solution for all this misery?
By nithya.. Posted July 8 2009 at 5:54 PM.
THANK YOU SIR VERY MUCH...STOP THE WAR!!!!
By krishna.. Posted June 21 2009 at 11:34 AM.
Dear Dan and Robin
Of course, you are risking your life to take this mission. But little woul dyou realise that this mission of yours is like GODs mercy for the Tamils.
By the way, Tamils are not refugees, they are now being displaced by force away from their villages. Tamil are in their homeland and held as POW by the Sinhala gov! SriLanka rightfully belongs to the Tamils as well! The history must be revisited. Infact, its the Sinhala who was backward and the minority, a few decades back. The war is similar to what Hitler did to the Jews-the Holocaust! What happen to hitler will follow suit...very soon. And the Tamils will get what is rightfully theirs! Thank you, from th ebottom of my heart and blessed are the peace makers, as President Obama has said.
By Arun.. Posted June 12 2009 at 2:15 AM.
It is because of people like you that the Tamil people of Sri Lanka continue to possess faith that they will one day get justice.
The Sri Lankan government is one of the most repressive governments till date and they will not stop till they've slaughtered as many Tamils as possible.
Despite all the disinformation and propaganda in the media pertaining to the Sri Lankan war, it's heartening to see the truth being reported for once.
A job well done...
The real terrorists aren't the LTTE but all those in the Sri Lankan government.
“The roots of decades-long Tamil insurgency lie in systematic discrimination against the Tamil people by successive Sri Lankan governments following independence from British colonial rule in 1948. The grisly climax came in 1983 with the government-inspired pogroms against the Tamils.
Tamil homes and businesses in the capital Colombo were burnt to the ground with the occupants inside”.
(Australasian Spartacist 2009, Number 204)
A prolonged ceasefire or completely eliminating the Tamil Tigers are only temporary solutions; the Sri Lankan government will kill again for old habits die hard.
The only feasible and appropriate solution towards safeguarding the equality and justice of the Sri Lankan people is the formation of an INDEPENDENT Tamil homeland.
To this day that remains the most infallible solution to prevent more bloodshed in our beautiful country.
By Kayathri.. Posted June 12 2009 at 12:11 AM.
Mr Don,
You are like an angel for the tamil community. Please do whatever you could do to help the innocent kids from the terror activity of the SL government.
As a Srilankan very much shame about the ruthless activirty of SL government. Thier power hungry is destroying the tamil community including the Children, women and elderly people.
God will bless you my brother.
By Indra Deva.. Posted June 11 2009 at 3:44 AM.
MR. DanMCDOUGALL.
I would like to thanks for the brave journalistand real truth about srilanka incent people killed, raped, murdered, tortured, brutal, open prison,no food, no water, why this world leaders still talking and watching,the time has come to deal with srilankan crimanals involved,please write somemore then whole world can read,
thanks
dharma
By dharmapanchalingam.. Posted June 6 2009 at 12:53 AM.
Thanks Dan.
You can't write all the sufferings the Tamils have experienced. LTTE started this freedom fight demanding a separate state, thinking then only the Tamils could get at least basic rights from the majority Sinhalese government, who wanted to make this a Sinhalese Buddhist State. The whole world went against the minority Tamils knowing well that these people had suffered heavily for decades. When the peace talk monitored by Norway failed the world superpowers should have looked into the issue very closely and helped ensure that the minority Tamils have at least basic human rights. The majority rejected the basic rights of this minority for decades. Whenever a political package was drafted to give minority simple basic rights, these were the torn apart by the ruling parties upon insistence by the opposition parties. The LTTE was forced to think that only if they ask for separate state, they would get some basic rights for their community. We very well informed the international community and begged them to help this small community to have their basic rights. The international community turned a blind eye and now pretends as if it has feelings about what had happened in the last few days of this war. The Tamils community would be treated as slaves for ever, and they don't have a way to lead a decent life any more. We were made to loose by International community..
By Gandi.. Posted June 4 2009 at 9:37 PM.
dear dan
thank you for excellent article.Goverment decided to decrease the population of tamils but unfortunately all blames go to LTTE and they lead them as terroist group.Even some small charities help to the people in the camps but government said to the charity you can help them if you have to show to the world the help come from government. you have to know from all offcial aid not going to reach the poor tamil people.
By daya.. Posted June 3 2009 at 11:08 PM.
Dear Dan,
You are truly a hero for taking the risk in bringing the truth to light. I am sure this article will open the eyes of some of the UN officials. "Congratulations"
Keep up the good work.
By Sai.. Posted June 3 2009 at 7:11 AM.
its is very sad to hear the story but there two sides of the coin what is root cause for this they are suffering becoz of LTTE supporting them directly or indirectly therer are people who lost their childs to ltte i balme LTTE & thepoeple who lives in abrosd who supported ltte.they never had issue tks to ltte they live a good life in western countries unlike these people
By danny.. Posted June 3 2009 at 3:46 AM.
Dear Dan
Thankyou for the risk you have taken to bring this report. What is known to the world is only the TIP of the ICEBURG. Knowing all this has not made any international community to act to make a difference to those poeple. As a doctor MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BECOME MEANINGLESS where I was trained to safe a hand full of lives & improve quality of life to a hand full of people. BUT it doesnot mean anything anymore. They have destroyed thousands more than the hand fulL I have a differnece to. WHO IS THERE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THESE. PEOPLE???? i LEFT Sri Lanka because I was affected in 1977 the house destryoed looted. I ran for my life with my father & a handicapped brother away from rape & death & moved to Jaffna & there they didn't leave us in peace they burnt our house.
Upto now we had a place to go back to/run to when the Sinhalese tortured us in other parts of the country now we no plce to go. At some pint some youth took up the gun tired of being chased they decided to stay behind & fight for the Tamils that is how the LTTE was created by the Sinhalese. They were mearly trying to survive & let the Tamils survive.
By Sybilla.. Posted June 2 2009 at 7:36 PM.
Than you Mr.Dan
I hope your article will help the world to know the truth.It is very sad to see the innocent people in the concentration camps. The SLP govt, destroyed LTTE with the aid of china,Pakistan Indian militery. Now what is happening the tamil civilions.All 26 years our freedom fighters (LTTE)saving our tamils.Now nobody can't save our people.Now the world has to realize they did the mistake.They called LTTE as A Terrorist. Now who is terrorist?Who is going to help the civilians. So all world has to step in srilanka.and save the people.
one more time thank you Dan. you did a great job.God bless you.
By uma nathan.. Posted June 2 2009 at 12:41 AM.
Thanks Dan for reporting what the Sri Lankan Tamil are experiencing. I myself am a Sinhalese and I know how the government treats the Tamils. I have seen it with my own eyes.
Whatever the government officials say to the media is 90% lie and of course their report cannot be challenged because no one else is allowed into the war region.
Hope things change around. West should do to put pressure on the government to allow NGO's to enter all war torn areas.
Thanks again for your report!
By Hasantha J... Posted June 1 2009 at 11:26 PM.
Hopefully now, we got a broadened picture of what the aftermath of a horrible civil war has done to the Tamil society. Thank you for being a great journalist in really revealing the sad but harsh truth. Your report made me cry atleast a few times, we shall keep trying to acheive justice, till it is achieved!
By Paraniya .. Posted June 1 2009 at 1:20 PM.
thank you very much for exposing this horrific true story to the world. I couldn't believe this is happening in 21 st centuary. there is no manKind in sinhaleese government. world also watched this human horror without doing anythink. when we( people) try to tell the same story world didn't listen to us. I don't know what the power of UN?? its a puppet of wealthy country.
good job we appreciate your hard work.
By jey.. Posted June 1 2009 at 1:47 AM.
Dan McDougall
I thank you so much for bringing the truth to the world. What you did ricking you life and being brave to publish this article is appreciated by all Tamils. Dan please write more about the descirimination which happens to innocent Tamil Civilian in those camps and make a difference in our life. Thank you.
thank you
Priya
By Priya.. Posted May 31 2009 at 5:42 PM.
I've lost 5 year old, 8 year old and 12 year old (Neice and Nephew). It makes me sad to know even those who survived the war is not at peace. They are not in any better place. Thanks you so much for bringing the truth.
By Sofia.. Posted May 30 2009 at 4:47 AM.
Dan -- thanks for the article.....I am still crying for the womens, girls and the children in the detention camps.....God should help them.........
By dave Kum.. Posted May 30 2009 at 12:43 AM.
Dear Dan,
Thank you for letting the world what happened in sri lanka. It is very sad to see the inncoent people have been killed by the sri lankan government. On the other I feel tigers also mades some mistakes I am not blaming the tamil tigers, they wanted a independent home land for the tamils - their demands are are right and pure -- but they have been branded as "terrorists" by the west, but one the same western countires realized that they mada a blunder in banning the tigers.....Now what happended..............the whole world knows what sri lankan government did for tamils......they do not want to solve the problem of the tamils......The IDPs are going to be kpet in these detention camps for years and years..the government will find some answers for their acts----they lie all the time....
Dan --- my heart is bleeding.......day and night ...I am crying...asking my self ...who is going to help us..
Dan --- please urge the international community to help at least after these huge unimaginable losses to the tamil community..........
We urge the international community to help the tamils direclty not through the Sri Lankan government.
Thanks a lot for your time.
Anashkan
By David Anashkan.. Posted May 30 2009 at 12:33 AM.
Thank you Dan for your effort to spotlight the truth that happened in Tamil's part of SriLanka.
By Rathan Bala.. Posted May 29 2009 at 11:27 PM.
Thank you Dan McDougall for your insight into the sufferings of the Jaffanese Tamils in the so called camps controlled by the SL Army. What is the UN Human Rights doing? Why haven't action been taken against the SL Govt for WAR CRIMES against the Tamil civilians.
LTTE were FREEDOM FIGHTERS, risking their lives to protect the Tamils from annihilation and the sinhala apartheid policy. They were NEVER terrorists.
By S.Shanmugaratnam.. Posted May 29 2009 at 11:07 PM.
Thank you for your story. Mother of two children, can't accept what's happening to children in these camps. I hope your article will help other government to open their eyes.
By Rama Udayakumar.. Posted May 29 2009 at 10:27 PM.
Thank you Dan
It is people like you we need not more people like Ban and Vijay Nambiar. I am a British Tamil and sometimes used to think that we have too much press freedom. I know better now, in the last 6 months I realised how valuable people like you are. You might not think so, but fearless press saves a lot of lives.
In a true democracy we are the masters and the Govt is there to serve us. Unless there is a press constantly reminding them this, the politicians tend to forget this. It is the free press that makes UK a democracy and not an election. It is hightime the corrupt countries in the UN human rights council realised this.
By gowri.. Posted May 29 2009 at 10:11 PM.
Dear Mr. McDOUGALL:
People like you is needed in this profession to bring the truth to the world. Now the SL government says that LTTE is a terrorist group and now they are suspecting that most of the Tamils are terrorists too. I am not a supporter of LTTE neither I am on the government side. I am like you who likes to speak the truth that is logical to our society. We cannot disagree that the SL government is who build people like LTTE. Their law as to only certain percentage of minority only can enter university and therefore, this group so called LTTE started to protect the Tamils. Over the years, the main purpose of the war was defeeted and it bacame more aggressive where 1000 of innocent people was killed in both parties.
Keeping all a side, now we think all is over. keeping the Tamils in camps, including young babies and children, I would say it is so unfair that people are getting punished. Now the Tamils people have no one to support and what is the SL govenment going to do for all the familes and children who lost their relatives and families etc?
I strongly believe that the UN must ask the SL in writing as to what they are going to do for Tamils and how they are going to help restart their life in their homeland? Once the govenment provide this answer to the whole world, then only other countries should trully help the government with money. What is the guranty that the goventment will do good to Tamil people after taking other countries money?
By Priya.. Posted May 29 2009 at 8:25 PM.
Dear Mr McDougall,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for highlighting the dismal conditions the Tamil refugees are forced to live under.
My heart bleeds.
My cousin lost her husband and her 3 year old son in the SL govt shelling and lives now with her month old baby in a camp near Vavuniya.
I don't know how to get to her.
By selvi.. Posted May 29 2009 at 5:31 PM.
Dear Mr. McDOUGALL,
My sincere and deepest thanks from bottom of my heart. Please encourage your journalist friends to find out lots more about tamils in north and east of Srilanka. Also please do something for freedom of speech and media.
By mhendran.. Posted May 29 2009 at 3:52 PM.
Hi Dan,
Thank you so very much for bringing out the truth. Looking forward to reading more articles, which give a voice to those who have been silenced.
By Freedom.. Posted May 29 2009 at 12:20 PM.
Dear Sir
As a British Tamil I salute for your true reporting of this story.Now I am beliving that at least some one is beliving our stories.All these time we were branded as terrorist. We don't know why.We are also peace loving people .Many many thanks for letting your readers knows what the Srilankan government is doing for our people in the name of war on Terror.
Many Thanks.
Chelliah
By Chelliah Selvathasan.. Posted May 29 2009 at 11:19 AM.
Thanks a lot for true effort and kindness toward thos people who are sufferring in this moments and going to suffer until the world take some action.
Baskaran
from sinagpore
By Baskaran.. Posted May 29 2009 at 5:35 AM.
There is little hope for justice is left by courageous journalists like you revailing the truth to the world. May God bless you.
By Kumar Punithavel.. Posted May 29 2009 at 3:12 AM.
thank you for the article Dan.
1/3 of the land for 8% of the population...don't you understand that the tamils were living in the 1/3 of the land(north & East) before you people arrived. Pandaravanniyan, Sangilian were ruling Vanni and Jaffna before British arrived.
By Jey.. Posted May 29 2009 at 3:32 AM.
I am a devout Buddhist and a Sinhalese. I am ashamed such atrocities are committed on the Tamil people in the name of Sinhala people and Buddhism by thugs who are getting rich on the backs of the poor Sinhalese people of the south.
LS
By Leslie Senivaratne.. Posted May 29 2009 at 2:38 AM.
Excellent article!!! Felt the pain and suffering. I hope the Tamils in SL will live in peace with the equality they've been seeking for over a decade. Hopefully the ruthless gov't will pay for the pain they've caused.
Thanks,
Kumar
By KSubramaniam.. Posted May 29 2009 at 1:29 AM.
Hi Dan,
Thanks for your article. At least now the world should know what is happening/happened in the northern part of Srilanka. Now what do you think abount UN???? God bless you.
By George.. Posted May 29 2009 at 1:02 AM.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR!
By AJ.. Posted May 28 2009 at 10:07 PM.
Thank you... these people have suffered in the hands of sri lankan goverment for too long. The ltte formed way after the struggle of tamils started, why did the sinhala majority make the tamils suffer then .NO race should think there superior to another. lOOK at america how the blacks suffered under the majortity and now there is a black president. Tamils have never been given oppurtuniities like that.. and the struggle of freedom will continue by students..
By vinnie.. Posted May 28 2009 at 8:49 PM.
Dear Sir
I am from Sri Lanka and a Sinhalese, but I could not do anything to stop this SL Terrorism Government and hope UN or other Countires will do something to Sri Lankan Government. I can also promise you that there will be zero Tamil will be in Sri Lanka in 10 years from Now. All will be killed by SL Army and their supporters.
Thanks YOu
By Danil Sunnel.. Posted May 28 2009 at 9:33 PM.
Thank You So Much.
I'm Speechless And Releaved at the same time of the fact that finally someone's witnessing the reality happening in Sri Lanka, of the struggle and everything that has and is presently going on.
THANK YOU Again. And Again.
Honesty Is What We Want To See. Reality Should Be Brought Out And Learned By The Bystanders And Viewers.
Thanks Again For The Honest Article, We Hope There Will Be More Of The Truth So The Struggle Can Be Known.
By Storm.. Posted May 28 2009 at 9:30 PM.
Dearest Dan,
Thank you very much for bringing out the truth of the horrible situation in SL. I really appreaciate this and I am sure every live on earth would be thankful to you and your family for the rest of your life.
Please bring out more information like this to save innocent lives.
By Sangkri.. Posted May 28 2009 at 8:27 PM.
Dear Editor
I am living in Capital of Sri Lanka, But I am not aware of such a things happing at my foot step. Becuase we are not allow to hear or say anything about Tamils. Again, Thank you very much and hope you can bring more inside sad strories to the world.
Ranil
By Ranil Veka.. Posted May 28 2009 at 7:33 PM.
excellent article and you have done for good journalistic service for Tamil people in Tamileelam. the bloody Sri Lankan army and Government think every thing is finish which is not true, they created new Tamil Tigers.
By goby.. Posted May 28 2009 at 2:29 PM.
thanks
By dee.. Posted May 28 2009 at 2:10 PM.
Thank you very for your excellent article. We Tamils have been deprived from every aspect as a human being in Sri lanka by all the governments who have been in the office ever since it got independence from Britain.
Now what you have witness is just the tip of the ice. But, if you have gone to the so called "no fire zone" or if you could talk to the people who can talk to freely then you would seen the much worst stories than this.
Looking forward to see your next articles from "no fire zone"
Thank you very much.
Shan
By Shan .. Posted May 28 2009 at 1:12 PM.
Actually replying to some of these comments that Sinhalese extremists seem to be posting:
Many of the protestors from the diaspora do not support the LTTE, but are only there in order to save relatives they have in the war zone.
Also Sinhalese say genocide is used loosely by the Tamil diaspora. Actually the real reason behind these camps is to make Tamil areas deserted so they can be colonised by Sinhalese. Furthermore of the 80 000 casualties in the war, I can assure you that 95% would be Tamil CIVILIANS.
Also the struggle for independence far predates the arrival of the LTTE. Actually 600 000 Tamils were forcefully deported to India in the 1950's and another 600 000 had their citizenship removed.
My grandfather was hacked to death by a Sinhalese mob in 1954, along with many of his friends. Where were the Tigers then?
Tamils were also prohibited from speaking Tamil in the workplace in the 1970's, leading to many job losses and Tamils had to score far higher marks than Sinhalese people in order to get into university, so Tamils couldn't earn a living.
The Tigers became a national phenomenon in 1983, so why were the Sinhalese mistreating Tamils before that?
By Visakan.. Posted May 28 2009 at 12:09 PM.
You have described what you saw after twenty years of Tamil Tiger rule. You should have visited the Tamils who were by force driven into the sliver of land for the survival of the terrorists. I think you would have heard about the child soldiers, cyanide caring fighters and women suicide bombers. The high class Jaffna Tamil had a dream to get 1/3 of the land for 8% of the population and they expected criminal Prabhakran to deliver the goods. The ordinary Tamils in the North fell for it while Tamils in the Western province live peacefully. Some LTTE fans from the West financed the terrorists without using their money for the welfare. You had seen the results of terrorism and separatism. One should never allow terrorism to raise its head. My family was killed by the LTTE and I too have a sad story to relate.
By rajan theva.. Posted May 28 2009 at 12:07 PM.
Dear Dan, My sincere thanks to you for brining this first hand information of the fate of the innocent civilians in the concentration camps! What's happening in Sri lanka should not happen in any part of the world anymore. This article remains as a valuable exposure to the blinded world about the Sri Lankan government atrocities: It is only through reporting by Journalists such as yourself that the world learns the truth!
Look forward more articles from you! Once again, thank you very much!
By Santhi.. Posted May 28 2009 at 12:05 PM.
Dan,
Once again you have done a great job.sri lanka is a pariah state.carry on mate! you would find out many more torture camps and death bunkers in this land. U.N is useless. human rights ? what is that? no body knows that in sri lankan government.
By shan.. Posted May 28 2009 at 12:31 PM.
I had no idea this happened in Sri Lanka! I will never visit that place again as long as this continues. Please keep speaking out Dan, so people who respect human rights like myself, don't visit this God-forsaken place and contribute to this disgusting holocaust. Sri Lanka I am truly disgusted.
Regards Bertie
By Bertie .. Posted May 28 2009 at 11:58 AM.
Thank you so much for this insight. Regardless of those who justify the treatment of the civilians for the majority of the country, they cannot speak untill they have received the same treatment, seeing their loved ones die infront of them and then being held as prisoners in horrendous conditions. Every single person that thinks this is for the best lets see their family being held in an IDP camp like beggars with no rights and no help. Its ok isnt it my sinhala brothers and sisters as long as its not your people or family its fine then isnt it?
By Vaish.. Posted May 28 2009 at 11:46 AM.
Thank you for your insightful article. Note the Sinhalese comments that suggest that incarceration of a whole population is justified - this hasn't been done anywhere in the world since the Nazis rounded up the Jews. The camp civilians witnessed too many horrors - use of illegal weapons, rape and torture. The goal is to eliminate them before they can tell their story and give their lands to Sinhalese settlers. Thank you for relating a little of what these desperate people have to face. The UN has just patted Sri Lanka on the back for a job well done. The West has lost - the evil ones have won.
By Ilangko.. Posted May 28 2009 at 11:03 AM.
Thanks for your report, it's really important that the world can see what horrible things are happening in Sri Lanka. I'm so glad you are willing to take the risk and report on the suffering that the Sri Lankan government don't want you to see. I'd maybe understand a bit if it was LTTE fighters being held in this way, but these Tamil people are CITIZENS of Sri Lanka. How can their own government treat them this way? It's not right.
By Meena.. Posted May 28 2009 at 11:32 AM.
Your story has made me to cry. But, I realise that the suffering there is more than what has been written.
By Edvin .. Posted May 28 2009 at 11:24 AM.
Thank you for your outspoken report on the plight of poor Tamils.The whole world is standing by and watching the suffering inflicted by a terror state on their own citizen under the guise of " internal affairs". Evil triumphs when the good stand aside.Thank you again for being courageous.
By Dr V Karunakaran.. Posted May 28 2009 at 11:24 AM.
I would like to thank you for taking the risk to tell the truth, I can understand how hard it must have been for you to get access. There seems like there is no hopes for tamils, this is not what I call equal rights, if this is what the goverment calls equal rights. How can children and the elderly be possible tigers?
Thank you for ur work and keep on telling the truth to the rest of the world, who hear nothing but goverment properganda.
By Roja.. Posted May 28 2009 at 11:19 AM.
Thank you for a very moving piece, Dan.What we need is an economic boycott of Sri Lanka. People should be made aware that every time they fly Air Lanka or Mihin Air, or take a holiday in Sri Lanka, or buy clothes made in Sri Lanka (sold by Primark, M & S, Next) or buy Sri Lankan tea, they are contributing to the oppression and killing of Tamils.
Please keep this item in the news, Dan. The Government of Sri Lanka spends millions trying to spread false propaganda regarding Tamils (even using Tamil names to send out pro-Government messages of support on different blog-sites !). It is only through reporting by Journalists such as yourself that the world learns the truth.
God Bless you !
By Murali.. Posted May 28 2009 at 8:59 AM.
Dear DAN McDOUGALL,
I would like to thank you from bottom of my heart for bringing the truth about Sri Lanka's secret refugee camps of Tamils.
Once again thanks a million for you courageousness.
Sutharsan Sri
By Sutharsan Sriyoganathan.. Posted May 28 2009 at 8:49 AM.
Dan, thank you for all your efforts! It is indeed very sad to see the suffering of these people. Mostly the children who are helpless! Wonder what the future holds for these innocent victims! Do you have a contact for Sivanda Thaovanam Orphanage?
By Sadhana Page.. Posted May 28 2009 at 8:53 AM.
Thank you ever so much for exposing the truth! Brilliant report! Hope the international community does realize the extent of the damage!
By Rishi.. Posted May 28 2009 at 8:21 AM.
Dan, thank you for this article. The Sri Lankan govt has killed 17 members of my family since Jan 2009 and the rest of my family are missing. Why - because we are Tamils. What is happening in Sri Lanka is genocide - another Rwanda. Without the support of the International Community, the Tamil race will be a doomed race at the hands of the Sri Lankan Sinhala Genocidal Government.
By Shanthy.. Posted May 28 2009 at 6:38 AM.
Dan,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being the voice of the voiceless! Being a Sri Lankan Tamil living in abroad and a father of two, the article broke my heart and flooded my eyes with tears. No one is there for these people! No International Committees... No United Nations… Not even GOD… What a cruel world that we are living in!
Dan, I escaped the war at the age of 13 and I still have scar in my heart even after 20 years living in abroad. Sri Lankan state never looked us Tamils equally in past and it will never in the future!! Why I say this? Well! Recently, the Sri Lankan defense minister (an American citizen) said, to cheer up its armed forces, that the civilian Tamil women held (separately from men) in the concentration camps are for the sexual pleasure of the Sri Lankan soldiers and that the Indian ocean will soon be red with the blood of civilian Tamil men.
International Committees, please help these People! Consider this issue beyond your political aspiration. After all, the Tamils in Sri Lanka also part of the so called Human Species!
By Suthan.. Posted May 28 2009 at 6:34 AM.
thank you for reporting on the true situation in northern sri lanka. Please continue to raise your voice for the innocent Tamil civilians. Just wanted to say that we truly appreciate it. Thank you very much.
By THANKYOU.. Posted May 28 2009 at 5:39 AM.
Dear Dan,
I write to you after reading your report on the camps in Sri Lanka and wiping tears from my eyes. I am not sure how to thank you for the courage, dedication and determination to cover the horrors of war in Sri Lanka against all odds.
It has been too convenient for most media organizations to blame the lack of government access for the minimal coverage. You could have been one of them, but you chose to break ranks and make the necessary efforts to get as close as you possibly can to the hidden truth. All this at the risk to your life and the possibility of being arrested and expelled from the country.
I truly admire your work and would like to thank you for all that you have done to bring us the truth.
Wishing you all the best.
Thank you.
By Pearl.. Posted May 28 2009 at 3:04 AM.
I think I speak on behalf of all tamils, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you from all the innocent children and all the innocent people effected by this war. Thank you for taking such a huge risk into revealing the truth behind what is actually happening and not what Sri Lanka puts out to the world to see. It brought tears to my eyes reading this article, why can't the world, see the truth, see these innocent children, why has the world turned their backs, the world is asleep while thousands upon thousands are suffering. I have made it my goal that I will go into these orphanages and help out there ..just to go talk to these children and play with their children. I don't have children of my own, but I don't know why and how the goverment is so ruthless, their hearts are made of stone, if they could make these innocent children without parents.
By Vithya.. Posted May 28 2009 at 4:28 AM.
Thank you so much.
please keep up the brave work.
By Sasi.. Posted May 28 2009 at 2:11 AM.
Please continue to keep the world informed about this situation. One wonders what is it going to take to get the world to notice and stand up for these people in desperate need. How many more need to die!
By Meera T.. Posted May 28 2009 at 1:41 AM.
Dear Dan McDougall
Your report brought floods of tears to my eyes. Being a father of three small children, I couldn't bear the sufferings of the thousands of innocent Tamil children who've been made orphans by this senseless act of terror by the state of Sri Lanka. God please give these kids hope and strength to survive this cruel world.
Dan, I am ever so grateful for your professionalism and courage in putting to print the unfolding tragic events that the world could've easily prevented. I do hope that this would help the British public understand why so many expatriate Tamils were at the Parliament square for many weeks desperately trying to bring Britain, EU and UN's attention to the plight of innocent Tamil....for many such Tamils it is now too late.
By Parthipan.. Posted May 27 2009 at 11:10 PM.
Dear Dan McDougallar,
Thank youi for your real report about srilanka. Can you do something to these peopleto get out of those prision??? Why do we need UN? What is the point of UN?? I really don't understand the duty of UN? Can you please do something for those people???? This is really sad, You have all the proof, You saw with your eye, Then why don't this UN BELEIEV YOU?? Thank you again
By Arun.. Posted May 27 2009 at 11:06 PM.
Dear Mr Dan,
Out heartiest thanks for revealing the the truth out and my humble request for you to take necessay action to safeguard tamils who are in the camps. God Bless you and your family.
By Ganeshan.. Posted May 27 2009 at 7:02 PM.
Mr. McDougal:
I am a father of three and I sincerely thank you for this article where you have exposed the severity of the situation surrounding war-affected children. I hope, International Community take notice.
Thank you again.
By Siva.. Posted May 27 2009 at 6:38 PM.
i do believe this will set up a standard onwards for a biasfree, realistic and moral journalistic works on Sri lanka and its "conflict", which all these years and easpecially in the later years has been embedded with bias...
By athithan.. Posted May 27 2009 at 5:39 PM.
It is very commendable you have shown your courage reaching the unreachable place and got the facts that are hidden to the outside world. The LTTE have made some blunders ,no doubt but they were born from the atrocities of the Srilankan chavanistism and the repeated denial of the legitimate rights of the minority Tamils. So much of innocent lifes would have been saved ,children, old &the siick will not be lanquishing in the internment camps had the majority Sinhalese acted with magnomity.God Bless you with long life .
By mrsRamalingam.. Posted May 27 2009 at 5:31 PM.
Thank You Sir DAN McDOUGALL. All wars leave people in agony and despair. I had tears im my eyes. Keep up your excellent and honest work, you are a true professional.
By Jeyanth.. Posted May 27 2009 at 4:47 PM.
Thank you for the voice for the voicles.Thank you for beaing a journalist with a heart. God bless your and your family
By Roy Lambert.. Posted May 27 2009 at 4:10 PM.
I thank you for writing what is exactly going on in Sri Lanka., how Sri Lankan government treating tamil people in those camps. i have not got words to express how much we appreciate your hard work. Please bring out all the truth and help our innocent people who trapped in those camps.
By arulini sivanesan.. Posted May 27 2009 at 3:45 PM.
Dan,
Thanks a million to bring the truth to the world. PLEASE DON'T STOP YOUR WORK WITH THIS. DO SOMETHING TO SAVE THE TAMIL CHILDREN AND ALL TAMIL PEOPLE IN THE CAMP. I beg you to save them. Please....
By Abirami.. Posted May 27 2009 at 3:15 PM.
Excellent report Mr. McDougall! The concern now is the people in the internment camps. Thank you for your honest report.
By Valli.. Posted May 27 2009 at 2:28 PM.
Dear Dan McDougall,
Thank you for you for bringing this story to the world. I appreciate your investigative journalism you have shown against the effected people and to bring their sorrow to the out side world. Keep up the good work and I wish you safe return to your homeland because I know what the Gove of Sri Lanka is capable of.
By Theepan Barthipan.. Posted May 27 2009 at 2:44 PM.
Dan, thank you for risking your life for the sake of humanity.
By B Muraleetharan.. Posted May 27 2009 at 2:20 PM.
This collosal damage to the entire Tamil society is caused by our British ancestors who colonized this nation. Tamils existed as a seperate kingdom in Sri Lanka in the pre colonial era. Tamils differ both in language and religion from Sinhalese. What else is needed for the "right to cede . Americans seperated from the crown due to tax difference between UK and the USA. Since these people are not white the UK maintained double standards in enforcing international law."I honestly feel guilty for the inability of the UK government to stop this crime against humanity.
I am an ordinary citizen like everyone else. So, my word to you guys is don't stop speking out! Keep protesting til these people in here realize !
Good Luck !
By M.Williams.. Posted May 27 2009 at 2:01 PM.
Mr. Mcdougall
A thousand thank you's to you for writing this article. One of the biggest crimes in humanity has been occuring and you are one of the only people pure in soul enough to do the right thing. I hope you fully understand how many people are grateful for this.
By Ramesh.. Posted May 27 2009 at 1:52 PM.
Thanks for revealing the truth
By soazhiyan.. Posted May 27 2009 at 12:33 PM.
Your words are the voices of the poor tamils who are in the detension camps. Well done. We sallute for your work.
By keth.. Posted May 27 2009 at 12:17 PM.
I thank you for telling the truth news in Cylon (Sri lanka)
By Vengadasalam Nithiy.. Posted May 27 2009 at 12:26 PM.
Thank you News of The World and Dan McDougall. Thank you for bring the plight of innocent Tamils to the world.
By Siva.. Posted May 27 2009 at 11:55 AM.
Thankyou for highlighting what is important, not who is right or wrong in this conflict, but rather the welfare of "the Tamil people left behind". They are innocent people suffering the consequences of the war, and it is down to the international community to show compassion and outrage at the blatant abuse of human rights. The SL government seems to believe that portraying the LTTE as terrorists
camouflages what they themselves have also inflicted on innocent people. This article, however has proven them to be mistaken. Printing the truth is only way to ensure peace and justice, and I hope others folllow in your footsteps.
By Priya Vaithilingam.. Posted May 27 2009 at 11:36 AM.
Thank you for having the courage and integrity to write about what is really happening in the camps. Our Tamil voices have for decades been ignored, I hope that at least now the world will begin to hear the truth.
By Sivakami.. Posted May 27 2009 at 11:14 AM.
Thank you Dan McDougall, you’re an example of what is like being a British. Stand for the truth stand for the lives. The British value will never die you’re an example for it. God bless you.
By Ragu.. Posted May 27 2009 at 11:08 AM.
Dear Mr McDougall
The Tamil community thank you for your bravery. We need reporters and Journalists like you to expose tyranny that is happening in S-L. Thanks for presenting a true picture of the plight of the orphan children, elderly and women. While reading your article tears were running down my eyes. Now pse campaign that the S/L President and his brothers should be tried for committing war crimes against innocent Tamil civilians.
Once again many thanks
Emily
By Emily.. Posted May 27 2009 at 11:08 AM.
Dan
Thanks for doing a great journalistic service. It is so heart wrenching to read the Tamils' plight.
Please make the world do something about it.
By Pravin.. Posted May 27 2009 at 10:59 AM.
Dan McDougall - you have shown the journalistic elite that the "pen is mightier than the gun". your exposure has made millions of people to realise the calamity of tamil people caused by sinhala buddhist majority. Srilanka is following the foot steps of chinas tibet policy. Sufferings in the camp could have been minimised if the world media have been allowed by srilankan govt. Anyway you have done a valuable exposure to the world community about srilankan atrocities. you are worthy of another world journalistic award. --bala
By p. balasundaram.. Posted May 27 2009 at 10:56 AM.
Thank you, you have taken a lot of risks and effort to bring the storey out into the public domain, but what action will come out of all the truth being shown like this? Those who committed these crimes are going Scot free because of the vested interest of the governments and organisations that have the power to do some thing.
By P.Chandra.. Posted May 27 2009 at 10:52 AM.
I am very saddened by the fact you have presented in your article. You are a brave man to have gone all the way to Pulmodai without being stopped by the authorities, inspite of the colour of your skin! It is a risk you took and really acheived what you wanted to do. Well done. I don't believe that anyone would help these poor Tamils in the camp as the International Community only preach and practice humanitarian. The officers in the United Nations are only there to earn their living. It is a joke if anyone is expecting to be protected by the UN. Politicians are politicians. The western politicians are not any better than the eastern ones. There may be few exceptions to this, but the majority of them are the same.
By Gore.. Posted May 27 2009 at 9:20 AM.
Dear Mr Dan Mc Dougal,
On behalf of all the children, women and orphans who are in the camps in North east Sri Lanka, I would like to Thank you for exposing the real truth about the three brothers who are committing such atrocities in that small island. Please continue to do your humanitarian work and expose the true stories of the atrocities that are still taking place in the camps in the North east and ensure that the Western World especially UK, USA and Europe wake up to the fact there is a humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka as it is in Pakistan. It is very unfortunate we do not have oil or any other resources that the European and Western world can tap in to for us to have the same treatment as other war torn countries.
Again a BIG THANK YOU TO YOU Sir for your wonderful article.
By Yaso.. Posted May 27 2009 at 9:17 AM.
Thank you. This is a very well written , balanced and never deviates from the much sufferings of innocent Tamil Civilians. I hope other Journalist will follow you and to tell our readers how sophisticated PR exercises by the Sri Lankan Government war using western sound bites War against Terror, Rescuing hostages have been so sucessful and a genocide and occured without the British public knows anything because our British media has decided to let wool pulled over their eyes. Thank you for exposing the suferring of these people and we are grateful to you.
By Raj Vaithilingam.. Posted May 27 2009 at 9:08 AM.
Thankyou very much for risking your life to bring the truth to the world. There may be other camps which are verse than this.
Regards
Guna
By Guna.. Posted May 27 2009 at 8:35 AM.
Thank you Mr.Dan on ur brave efforts in carrying out the true duty of journalism - providing awareness to the world of the shamefull, discriminatory and unjust actions on the tamil people of Sri Lanka. We pray that more media can witness exactly whats reeli going on and that political leaders can be brave enough to push justice for those suffering ..
God bless u!
By Alvin.. Posted May 27 2009 at 8:28 AM.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING THE TRUTH TO THE WORLD.
THE NGOS NEED TO INTERVENE TO HELP THE TAMILS IN THE CAMPS FROM DYING SLOWLY.
THE LTTE ARW NOT TERRORISTS. THEY ARE FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
By PRIYA.. Posted May 27 2009 at 8:26 AM.
Dear Dan Mcdougall
Thank you for telling the truth about what is happening in Srilanka.You must be brave as you risked your life in Srilanka.
God bless you.
By Mahendi.. Posted May 27 2009 at 8:26 AM.
Thank you, sir, for your bravery and honesty, thank you.
By Hannah.. Posted May 27 2009 at 8:14 AM.