Forgotten Experiences of Up-country Tamil Women in Transitional Justice as health, maternity, wage issues, and labour rights. It is very rare that these organisations focus their work on peace building, reconciliation, and transitional justice. The same situation occurs among women’s organisations. The women’s organisations working in the plantation sector focus more on economic, social, and cultural issues. The other women’s organisations and NGOs who work on transitional justice completely ignore the Up-country Tamils, based on the assumption that the Up-country was not directly affected by the war and therefore there are no conflict-related issues prevailing there. The second limitation is that donor-driven projects restrict geographical areas to the North and East and organisations do not have the expertise to work in the plantation sector. Finally, the number of Up-country people affected by the conflict is assumed to be very small when compared to the North and East. Mistrust among Community Members and Relatives When a person has disappeared or has been arrested, their family members are considered to be suspect too. Neighbours often believe that the victims could have some connection with the LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam], and that’s the reason for their disappearance or arrest. So the family members are often questioned on their supposed guilt by others. Furthermore, neighbours and relatives do not always invite these family members to their functions or other events, to avoid having any connection with the families of the disappeared or arrested, and risking becoming suspects themselves. 65