Monday, June 15, 2009

60,000 IDPs held hostage… by INGOs…

Senior members of major local NGOs have accused major INGOs operating in the north of the country of deliberately denying facilities to IDPs in the Wanni refugee camps, in order to humiliate and discredit the government.

By limiting their cooperation with the government it is alleged that prominent INGOs are working to ensure that conditions in the camps remain as unsanitary as possible – allowing the international community to heap condemnation on the government for its failure to care for IDPs.

A range of INGOs and even the UNHCR stands accused of effectively holding IDPs hostage in order to carry out a political agenda dictated by major Western powers. It is claimed that major INGOs are refusing to work in, and provide aid to, government run camps in Zones 0 and 1 of the Wanni resettlement site. Read more ...

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