Tag: Plantation Community

In October 2014, a huge landslide struck Sri Lanka in the district of Badulla- a hilly region, which caused many fatalities and left people missing forever. This lead to a whole community of line-house dwellers being flushed away and buried by dawn, while some victims were still sleeping. It became Sri Lanka’s second largest natural disaster; the first being the Tsunami, within recent history. The Meeriyabedda tea estate disappeared from the geographical map and people who were displaced were retained in schools that served as temporary camps. By 2015 they are still in the same camps as there is nowhere to go and no resettlement plans are being implemented. However, the government has begun planning for a resettlement program for these people and to launch it in a massive scale throughout the whole tea estate labor sector.