Bus station of Trincomalee, Trincomalee district, Sri Lanka. Private house in Moratuwa, Colombo district, Sri Lanka. Sinhalese settler's village, Jaffna district, Sri Lanka. Military checkpoint in Jaffna, Jaffna district, Sri Lanka. The hidden face of Sri Lanka. Abandoned to themselves in the suburbs of large cities and forced to live under bridges, along the open sewers or next to the train tracks.
Forgotten in the refugee camps and waiting, for years, to return to their homes and their lands, under military occupation. There are at least three million people but nobody talks about it. They live by day thanks to occasional jobs, thanks to the help of humanitarian associations or simply asking for charity on street corners.
Many have problems with alcoholism, some are forced to prostitute themselves. Sri Lanka, after about 25 years of civil war and hundreds of thousands of dead, lives a great economic revival but caste is still a reality and the distance between the north, wounded and the south, in continuous growth does not seem to diminish. From the north to the south the other side of Sri Lanka, the one that many are ashamed of, is hidden behind the big 5-star resorts and behind Western tourism, is overwhelmed by censorship and tries to survive by fighting every day.
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