Social Consequences

- Sri Lankan Tamils driven out of their homeland
In the 1983 riots, thousands of Tamils fled to Tamil Nadu in South India. Moreover, High Security Zone(HSZ) which are areas in which access is controlled was being set up by the Sri Lanka Army to keep the LTTE away. Due to the Sri Lanka Army, many Tamils had to flee from their homes and went into hiding while some are still living in overcrowded conditions in refugee camps or with relatives and friends, and they only have a few places to flee to because the army had occupied large parts of the Tamil-dominated areas in the north and east of Sri Lanka. This says that the conflict had also caused large-scale displacement beyond its borders.