This video shows what happens to the people that live, or lived, around military zones. Most of them had their homes taken away during the civil war. After the conflict had somewhat subsided, the people were released from the welfare centers they were living in during the war and were invited back to their homes. But for most families, the homes were inhabitable, sometimes completely demolished. They then found themselves living in conditions worse than what they had had in the welfare centers. If the fighting hadn’t destroyed their houses, they would likely have been not able to get to them anyway. Hundreds of peoples’ houses had been closed off because they were in secret military zones. So even if the fighting had not destroyed a family’s house, they probably wouldn’t have been able to get to their house anyway. Along with loss of houses, thousands of mines had been laid in open fields. The extraction of these lethal explosives was very tedious and dangerous. Many injuries occurred in the removal of the mines. The people that had been told to extract the mines usually did not have enough money to have surgery if a mine wounded them. Because of this, many people would die from disease and sickness. These few examples show just a minuscule amount of what the people in Sri Lanka suffered from.
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