Forgotten Experiences of Up-country Tamil Women in Transitional Justice The objective of this chapter is to bring to light the needs and experiences of Up-country Tamil women in the ongoing discourse of transitional justice and reconciliation. This chapter examines and analyses three issues: the experiences of women who relocated from the Up-country to the East and North of Sri Lanka in 1978 and 1983; how Up-country Tamil women coped when their close relatives went missing during the ethnic conflict (1983-2009); and how these women view the Prevention of Terrorism Act through which their relatives have been, and in some cases are still, under detention. Methodology The study on which this chapter is based was conducted using both primary and secondary data. I conducted 10 life history interviews with Up-country Tamil women. Among them, four women had close relatives (husband, son, father, siblings) arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act; three women had close relatives who were disappeared during the ethnic conflict, two women relocated to the North and East because of the conflict during the 1970’s and 1980’s; and one woman temporarily migrated to Colombo, seeking employment. The participants for life history interviews were selected based on a snowball sampling method, where a known person introduces another person who faced similar issues. However, there are limitations in this method if the informant does not know another informant to introduce to the researcher. The secondary data was collected from the Consultation Task Force Report (2016); Department of Census and Statistics (2012); International Committee of the Red Cross (2016); and reports from the Nuwara Eliya District Secretariat (unpublished and on file with the author). 55