Sri Lanka's government has announced they will release the more than 130,000 Tamil's for short periods of time held in 'Special Camps" set-up after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers last May. What a nice humanitarian gesture ha ha ha. Given how the majority Sinhalese have treated the minority Tamil's in the past with laws that so marginalized them that a 26 year Civil War ensued. Why should any thinking person believe positive changes will be enacted.
Hastily constructed and run by the Sri Lankan military these people have been held in what can only be described as prison like conditions all because they are Tamil's. According to the government these displaced people citizens of Sri Lanka are being detained because some of them might be Tamil Tiger fighters who have hidden in plain sight as refugees. These camps have been poorly run with the UN complaining that the government has not allowed humanitarian aid to reach these people in need.
Given past abuses by the Sri Lankan government and its complete disregard for the human and civil rights of the Tamil people its difficult for one to believe that the elected leaders of this country will alter their view of the Tamil people and how they treat them.
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