Refworld | Sri Lanka: 1. Is Mullaittivu an LTTE controlled area? What implications does this have for day-to-day living and working? Has the situation got worse in recent years? 2. What is the Jeevashakthi (Charity) group's main interests? Would membership of this group dissuade the police from visiting and interrogating? Is it possible to get a list of their international conferences held from 2003 onwards please? 3. When someone identifies as "Tamil" what characteristics apart from language are they assigning themselves? 4. Is it likely that students from Mullaittivu would have been harassed in Colombo by police and CID officers in the late 1990s? 5. How organised were the EPDP and the EPRLF in the late 1990s? Is it possible that the paramilitaries of the EPDP and the EPRLF been operating in Mullaittivu? 6. Are there many recorded instances of police and CID corruption around 2000 in Colombo? 7. Was the "Thinamurasu Tamil Daily Weekly" controlled by the EPDP in 2002-3? 8. What is the relationship between the LTTE and EPDP? Are there attempts to infiltrate each other's groups? 9. Have there been many recorded instances of rape and other serious assaults by EPDP cadres at Mount Lavaniya Police Station?

Title	Sri Lanka: 1. Is Mullaittivu an LTTE controlled area? What implications does this have for day-to-day living and working? Has the situation got worse in recent years? 2. What is the Jeevashakthi (Charity) group's main interests? Would membership of this group dissuade the police from visiting and interrogating? Is it possible to get a list of their international conferences held from 2003 onwards please? 3. When someone identifies as "Tamil" what characteristics apart from language are they assigning themselves? 4. Is it likely that students from Mullaittivu would have been harassed in Colombo by police and CID officers in the late 1990s? 5. How organised were the EPDP and the EPRLF in the late 1990s? Is it possible that the paramilitaries of the EPDP and the EPRLF been operating in Mullaittivu? 6. Are there many recorded instances of police and CID corruption around 2000 in Colombo? 7. Was the "Thinamurasu Tamil Daily Weekly" controlled by the EPDP in 2002-3? 8. What is the relationship between the LTTE and EPDP? Are there attempts to infiltrate each other's groups? 9. Have there been many recorded instances of rape and other serious assaults by EPDP cadres at Mount Lavaniya Police Station?
Publisher	Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal
Publication Date	11 May 2007
Country	Sri Lanka
Citation / Document Symbol	LKA31674
Cite as	Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal, Sri Lanka: 1. Is Mullaittivu an LTTE controlled area? What implications does this have for day-to-day living and working? Has the situation got worse in recent years? 2. What is the Jeevashakthi (Charity) group's main interests? Would membership of this group dissuade the police from visiting and interrogating? Is it possible to get a list of their international conferences held from 2003 onwards please? 3. When someone identifies as "Tamil" what characteristics apart from language are they assigning themselves? 4. Is it likely that students from Mullaittivu would have been harassed in Colombo by police and CID officers in the late 1990s? 5. How organised were the EPDP and the EPRLF in the late 1990s? Is it possible that the paramilitaries of the EPDP and the EPRLF been operating in Mullaittivu? 6. Are there many recorded instances of police and CID corruption around 2000 in Colombo? 7. Was the "Thinamurasu Tamil Daily Weekly" controlled by the EPDP in 2002-3? 8. What is the relationship between the LTTE and EPDP? Are there attempts to infiltrate each other's groups? 9. Have there been many recorded instances of rape and other serious assaults by EPDP cadres at Mount Lavaniya Police Station?, 11 May 2007, LKA31674 , available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4b6fe29a0.html [accessed 2 June 2023]
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