As conflict flared up in Sri Lanka between 1986 and 2007, MSF provided support to people affected by the fighting.
MSF first worked in Sri Lanka in 1986 to assist victims of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. We provided medical care through mobile clinics, and supported camps for displaced people and health structures until March 2004. Nine months later, we responded to a devastating tsunami by running mobile clinics, rebuilding structures, and providing material support to displaced people until 2005.
MSF returned in 2007, providing surgery to people caught up in renewed fighting and we continued to treat people affected by the fighting until 2012.
1986
1986
Sri Lanka
Psychological trauma of the civil war in Sri Lanka
Project Update
26 Apr 2002
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's health service is a casualty of 20 years of war
Project Update
9 Feb 2002
Sri Lanka
Hospital volunteers trained in northern Sri Lanka
Project Update
7 Nov 2001
Sri Lanka
MSF urges respect for the safety of civilians safety caught in Sri Lanka fighting
Press Release
16 May 2000
Sri Lanka
MSF warns of medical emergency in northern Sri Lanka
Press Release
26 Apr 2000
Sri Lanka
Critical medicine shortage
Press Release
17 Apr 2000
Sri Lanka
MSF concerned by the critical shortage of essential medicines in northern Sri Lanka.
Press Release
17 Apr 2000
Sri Lanka
MSF provides emergency medical care
Project Update
28 Jan 2000