14,400 Muslim families, roughly 72,000 people, were forcibly evicted from LTTE-controlled areas of the Northern Province . [ 233 ] This includes 38,000 people from Mannar , 20,000 from Jaffna and Kilinochchi , 9,000 from Vavuniya and 5,000 from Mullaitivu . [ 234 ] In 1992 the LTTE embarked on a