A United Nations agency is getting private sector support to help re-settle a part of the 660,000 refugees in the country who are starting to return to their former homes, officials said.
Sri Lanka defeated Tamil Tiger separatists in a two and a half year campaign with first the East, then the Northwest and finally the Northeast areas under Tiger control being re-taken.
"In Sri Lanka now we have 660,000 displaced persons," says Amin Awad, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refuges (UNHCR) in Sri Lanka.
"It's a big number of people."
After the most recent fighting, nearly 300,000 people mainly from Kilinocchi and Mullaitivu areas are housed in camps in Vavuniya in the north. In Mannar in the Northwest the government has already started to re-settle people. Read more ...
Friday, June 12, 2009
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