Srilankan Tamil Asylum Seekers

live in a wooden boat leaning on Merak, Jawa in Indonesia.On the ship we share a place among 194 men, 29 women, one of us is 5 month pregnant, and 31 children. We are Tamil who came from some areas in Sri Lanka such as Jaffna, Batticaloa, Mullaittivu and Colombo. We left our home country, Sri Lanka, a result from prolonged conflict between the government and LTTE armed groups. There are five main reasons why we left Sri Lanka: Racial Discrimination, genocide, persecution, kidnapping and murder ...
Author: tamilrefugeeboat; Tags: Srilankan Refugees


















