உயர் பாதுகாப்பு வலயங்கள்High Security Zones and military land occupation
Designated zones in the North-East — initially during the armed conflict, persisting post-2009 — within which the Sri Lankan military occupies private and public land and restricts civilian movement.
HSZs are the post-war architecture by which civilian Tamil land remained under military control after the active conflict ended. The Demilitarisation Desk maintains the standing civic file; the case file records the structural feature.
§1Structural feature
Land release has occurred piecemeal and unevenly across the Northern and Eastern Provinces. Verité Research, CPA and Adayaalam have documented the gap between the announced release figures and verified ground-level release. The case file defers to those organisations on figures and to OHCHR (2015, 2026) on the underlying violation framework.