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Featured Article: Statistics on Civilians Affected by War in Northeast 1974-2004 Full Report

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Friday, 06 January 2006
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The data collection project was started after the signing of the ceasefire agreement in 2002 which allowed relatively free access to all areas of Northeast. Yet, it must be noted that large scale displacement had taken place among the Tamil community. The data collection did not include those who have moved to places outside Northeast, many of whom are infact living as refugees in other countries. Given that at least half a million Tamils have displaced to outside Northeast and that the vast majority of them were people badly affected by war, the statistics given below is incomplete. It will be a much larger project to include this sector of the Northeast population.

Also problematic was the data collection in the east. The actual data collection started only during the later part of 2004 and before its completion the people were visited by the tragic tsunami disaster. The project was therefore never completed in the eastern regions. This can be seen in the tables as very low figures in eastern district.

The questioner used to collect data is a table printed over both sides of a large sheet of paper with 21 columns in it. Data on each affected person is entered in one row. The columns in the table are,

  1. Row number

  2. Full name of informant

  3. Full name of affected person

  4. Relationship to informant

  5. Age of the affected person at the time of incident

  6. Sex

  7. Permanent address

  8. Temporary address

  9. Location of incident

  10. Year of incident

  11. Occupation of the affected person at the time of incident

  12. Number of dependents on the affected person under the age of 18 at that time

  13. Incident on Land or Sea

  14. In what form the person is affected

  15. What type of violence was used

  16. Offender

  17. Occasion of arrest

  18. Occasion of disappearance

  19. Type of limb lost

  20. Other type of injury

  21. Notes

Data collectors were employed on contract basis. A graduate was appointed as the coordinator for each district. Permission was obtained from the District Secretariat(Kachcheri) and the help of the Grama Sevakar was sought to ensure all households were covered. In addition, the team for each village had at least one person from that village as additional method of ensuring no household in the village is missed in the data collection.

In addition to collecting the above data affidavits were collected from families where the affected person has either died or disappeared.


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