UNHCR sends more field experts as civilians return to Sri Lanka's north

A second team of UNHCR emergency experts arrived in Sri Lanka on Friday. The team of four includes specialists on community services, protection and other essential field functions. They follow the deployment of five experts to the north in February and March.
More than 170,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have fled the conflict zone in the north-east, including 120,000 during the last 10 days. They are accommodated in 38 sites in four districts of the north and east of the country. UNHCR and its partners have mounted a massive humanitarian operation in support of the government to assist these displaced people. Read more ...