Invisible People: Suspected LTTE Members in the Special Refugee Camps of Tamil Nadu
Invisible People: Suspected LTTE Members in the Special Refugee Camps of Tamil Nadu
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隐形人：泰米尔纳德邦特殊难民营中疑似猛虎组织成员
DOI：
10.1093/rsq/hdw021
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Kodiyath S
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作者：
Kodiyath S
在印度南部的泰米尔纳德邦，有近10万来自斯里兰卡的难民，他们的语言和种族特征与这些难民相同，这是一个经常看不见的群体，其中一部分人相对匿名。斯里兰卡泰米尔族人口的外流始于20世纪80年代初，一直持续到2013年，甚至在2009年战争结束后。这些难民人口的大多数被安置在全州107个难民营中。然而，正是那些被怀疑是泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织成员的泰米尔难民在三个戒备森严的“特别营地”中苦苦挣扎，他们才是本文的重点。这些集中营的囚犯由于其独特的地位而存在于一种隐形的外衣之下，他们甚至被剥夺了其他拘留设施中普通囚犯所享有的基本权利。这篇文章认为，缺乏国际法义务和国内政策帮助印度政府维持了一种不确定的状态，导致上述个人受到当权政府突发奇想的对待。
An often unseen population, a section of which exist in relative anonymity, are the close to hundred thousand refugees from Sri Lanka in the South Indian State of Tamil Nadu, residents of which share linguistic and ethnic attributes with these refugees. The exodus of the ethnic Tamil population from Sri Lanka commenced in early 1980s and continued more or less till 2013, even after the end of the war in 2009. The majority of this refugee population is housed in 107 refugee camps across the State. However, it is those Tamil refugees who are languishing in three highly guarded “special camps” as suspected members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who are the focus of this article. The inmates of these camps exist under a cloak of invisibility due to their unique status, with even the basic rights enjoyed by the ordinary prisoners in other detention facilities denied to them. This article argues that the lack of international law obligations and domestic policies have helped the Government of India to sustain a state of limbo resulting in the said individuals being treated according to the whims of the Government in power.