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The beautiful island of Sri Lanka, located to the Southeast of India, is a fractured country today. The communal holocaust of July 1983 and the intensification of ethnic conflict have resulted in large-scale internal displacement of people and movement of refugees from Sri Lanka to different parts of the world. The State of Tamil Nadu in India, separated from Sri Lanka by the narrow and shallow Palk Straits, is a haven for Sri Lankan Tamils. Between Fear and Hope ...
The groups of people uprooted from their traditional moorings is a grave human problem. The reasons may be political as in the case of the exodus following the partition of the country. But the process of modernization and industrialization also takes its toll of mass displacement. The magnitude of the problem cannot be over-emphasised: Narmada Valley project would displace an estimated one million people from their homes, the National Testing Range at ...