 Priya and Nades were both living in Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War which started in 1983 and formally ended in 2009 with the Sri Lankan Army defeating the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).Nades claimed to have been forced to join the LTTE in 2001 and as a result was harassed by Sri Lankan government authorities.The Australian government claim that Nades was able to freely travel to Kuwait and Qatar for work between 2004 and 2010 and therefore was not of concern to Sri Lankan authorities.