The Forever Victims? Tamil Women in 

Post-War Sri Lanka

By Nimmi Gowrinathan and Kate Cronin-Furman

The 2015 presidential election brought stunning change to southern Sri Lanka. MaithripalaSirisena’s administration has walked back the powers of the executive presidency and relaxedrestrictions on civil society and the media. And the August parliamentary elections, in which SriLanka’s voters demonstrated decisively that they did not wish to wind back the clock and return

former President Rajapaksa to power, consolidated these changes. But in the north, the benets ofthis political shift have been limited. While there has been some movement on land conscations andpolitical prisoners, the military remains a pervasive presence that denes daily life in a way that is

simply not the case in the south. 

The-Forever-Victim-Tamil-Women-in-Post-War-Sri-Lanka1.pdf by Thavam Ratna