Displaced Sri Lankans Increasingly Returning Home From Camps – UNHCR

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About 90,000 Sri Lankans displaced by the conflict between Government forces and Tamil separatists have returned to their homes in the past three months, and the pace of returns has begun to accelerate, the United Nations refugee agency reported on Friday.

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