'Sri Lanka to hold elections in northern areas soon'

The Sri Lankan government plans to immediately rehabilitate the lakhs of internally displaced civilians in the northern parts of the country, where the last leg of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) was waged, culminating in the death of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran.

"We have certainly initiated the reconciliation, reintegration and developmental process in order to bring our people into the mainstream. There are thousands of internally displaced people we have to care for until they are ready to go back to their villages," Dr Palitha Kohona, secretary to the minister of foreign affairs told DNA. Read more ...