Attacks on Sri Lankans in Tamil Nadu

These attacks have led to the Sri Lankan government considering to shift its Deputy High Commissioner's office in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, to Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala following its recall of its Defence Attaché from Chennai as a result of harassment. Sri Lankan students in universities in Tamil Nadu have been forced to vacate college hostels and are refused alternate accommodation in private homes.

List of incidences

• March 2008: Sri Lankan director Thushara Peiris was assaulted while working on a film in Chennai.
• September 2011: The Maha Bodhi Society office in Chennai was vandalized by the Naam Thamizhar group.
• 10 January 2012: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's brother-in-law Thirukumuran Nadesan was attacked by MDMK activists while coming out of a temple in Rameshwaram.
• September 2012: 184 Sri Lankan pilgrims to churches in Velankanni and Poondi were attacked by pro-Eelam groups and had to be evacuated by a special flight of Mihin Lanka.
• 7 February 2013: Bank of Ceylon Branch in Chennai was attacked by a mob of 15 people.
• March 2013: Mihin Lanka sales office in Madurai attack by Pro-Tamil Naam Thamizhar group.
• 16 March 2013: A Sri Lankan Buddhist priest, a student of The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), was attacked by a group of Tamil political activists while visiting The Thanjavur temple complex. Later Three buses carrying the priest and the rest of the students to the Tiruchirapalli airport attacked by Tamil outfits.
• 18 March 2013:A group of men attacked a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage at Chennai Central railway station.