Abstract:
During the course of the protracted war in Sri Lanka, several displaced victims of the war entered as refugees
and sought asylum in Tamil Nadu state in South India. The civil war ended in 2009 in Sri Lanka, following
which peacebuilding and reconstruction works were started by the government. In the process of building
peace in the post-war context, repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees was considered a primary task among
other resettlement works required to restore normalcy to civilian life in the former war zones. The
Government of Sri Lanka formally invited the refugees to return to their motherland and provided some
assistance towards their passage. This paper looks at the progress of the repatriation process of Sri Lankan
refugees from Tamil Nadu state in the post-war period. To address this task this paper uses primary and
secondary data as appropriate.
