Sinhalese chased away from Jaffna by LTTE seek resettlement

Quoting the Army spokesman Major General Ubhaya Medawala, Sri Lanka's state-owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation reported that 150 Sinhala families who resided in the Northern Province capital Jaffna for over 50 years have applied for resettlement.

The official said it had been established that all of them were long time residents of Jaffna. Most of these Sinhalese ran businesses in Jaffna and they were famous for bakery industry in the peninsula.

However, they migrated back to their ancestral villages, mainly in Deep South, with the culmination of communal violence.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) commenced ethnic cleansing with ousting of Sinhalese and later chased away the Jaffna Muslims within a brief time frame.
Around 40,000 Sinhala soldiers are in Jaffna now manning the security establishments.