Up Country Tamils: Charting a New Future in Sri Lanka relocated to the North and East, have not identified their ethnicity as Up-country Tamil. However, many Up-country Tamil men were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Terrorist Investigation Department (TID) during the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Again, there is no information on how many people were arrested under the PTA, nor their place of origin and ethnicity, since there is no proper documentation or publicly available database. Up-country women face similar and unique problems as do women in the North, East, internally displaced Muslim women, and also Sinhala women from former border villages, due to the ethnic conflict. The female relatives face different issues when compared to their male counterparts. Accessing Information Women find it very hard to get relevant information from government authorities about missing relatives. They do not know what exactly should be done when their relatives are missing, disappear, or are arrested. Women are often not aware of the reasons for the arrests, who arrested their relatives, and where they were taken. Most of the time, their immediate reaction is influenced by a neighbour’s advice. A woman who was interviewed for this study said the following: “I first went to the trade union leader at the regional office and waited there for so long. Then they took me to the police station to make a complaint. I thought I should have 62