Eyewitness Accounts
One of the men who was forced to leave Colombo managed to call a local radio station, Sirisa FM from a mobile phone. He said;
"The police came and took us and put everyone on the bus... We don't know where we are being taken".
A 64-year-old woman from Jaffna, who was among those evicted said that;
"We were asked to go back to our villages, but the government dropped us off at a detention camp in Vavuniya"
Another 54-year-old woman was quoted as saying;
"Police didn't listen to us, they tried to beat us, they were scolding and they put us in to the vehicles, they didn't even allow us to drink tea. When we saw people being caged in white van and taken away, we got scared and were hiding, even there they found us. "
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