1. What group of people are being forced by the government to stay in Sri Lanka's "refugee" camps four months after Sri Lanka's civil war ended?

2. List the problems the people in the refugee camps face.

3. Why did the Sri Lankan government sentence journalist J.S. Tissanayagam to 20 years of hard labor?

4. What atrocities did the Tamils suffer at the hands of the Tamil Tigers, and then at the hands of Sri Lankan soldiers before the war ended?

5. Read the "Background" below on the Tamils, and visit the websites under "Resources" for more information.
a) What do you think of the plight of the Tamil people?
b) Why do you think the Sri Lankan government has banned the ICRC (Red Cross) from the refugee camps?
Explain your answers.