News Source: Asian Tribune
| 2 months ago
Almost 10,000 internally displaced persons who were receiving the shelter at the welfare villages of Manik Farm in Vavuniya were resettled in their own villages in the North and East provinces yesterday (September 11).
News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
Counting the human cost of Sri Lanka's conflict 11 September 2009 The Government of Sri Lanka announced a plan on 23 May to resettle most civilians displaced by conflict by the end of the year. The government’s target of 80% was later revised...
News Source: The Guardian
| 2 months ago
In July Peter Mackay, an Australian citizen, was given two weeks to leave the country, despite having a visa that ran until the summer of next year. The diplomat, who was monitoring the conflict, had put together briefings for embassies in Colombo...
News Source: The independent
| 2 months ago
In its firmest warning yet to the government of Sri Lanka, the United Nations has said it cannot indefinitely continue funding the huge refugee camps in the north of the country. The world body urged the authorities to allow the hundreds of thousands...
News Source: The Hindu
| 2 months ago
Sri Lanka on Friday said that 9,900 war-displaced people housed at the Menik Farm complex in Vavuniya had been sent back to their hometowns...Among those released were 6,838 to Jaffna in the north and 2,170 to Trincomalee, 683 to Batticaloa and 274...
News Source: BBC
| 2 months ago
A court in Sri Lanka has granted bail to two former Tamil Tiger civilian officials who have been in government custody for more than four months. The former rebel spokesman, Daya Master, and an interpreter for the group's political wing, George...