The expulsion of non-resident Tamils from Colombo was an incident which took place on June 7, 2007 when 376[1] ethnic Tamil refugees living in Colombo were deported from the city by the Sri Lankan Police.[2][3][4] The evicted were sent back to Jaffna, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa, where they are originally from, in several buses with a police escort.[5] However the buses only went as far as the town of Vavuniya and the evicted Tamils were forced to stay in a detention camp.[6] The President asked those who were evicted to come back to Colombo[6] and ordered an investigation into the incident