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New York Times (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Sri Lanka plans to release refugees still in government camps where they have been detained since the country’s civil war ended six months ago, a top official said.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it will allow greater freedom of movement to refugees held in military-guarded camps from next month, after facing pressure to speed up resettlement of thousands of Tamils displaced by war.
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CNN (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The Sri Lankan government said Saturday it will lift restrictions on thousands of war-displaced ethnic Tamils still residing in squalid internment camps.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday.
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Sri Lanka to release 136,000 war-displaced Tamils held 6 months in detainment camps Sri Lanka - Tamil people - Asia - Government - Travel and Tourism
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Sri Lanka will release 136,000 ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees Dec. 1, allowing the civilians to leave squalid and overcrowded government camps after a half-year detainment, a top official said Saturday.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
A senior Sri Lankan official said that all ethnic-minority Tamil detainees would be freed from government camps on Dec. 1.
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France 24 (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Sri Lanka's government has pledged to let tens of thousands of civilians displaced during the war with the Tamil Tigers move freely between refugee camps until their permanent re-settlement, to be completed by the end of January.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Sri Lanka said Saturday it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of completing their planned re-settlement in two months. The announcement comes amid strong international pressure on Colombo to release tens of thousands of civilians held in the camps. Some 136,328 men, women and children still remain inside camps across the island's north, down from...
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Nov 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka Government said Saturday that the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camped in welfare villages in the North will have more freedom to move in and out of the camps with effect from next month ahead of their resettlement.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
While praising the Sri Lankan government for accelerating resettlement of war displaced civilians in the north, a senior official from the United Nations has stressed the need of further improving the conditions of the camps in the north where more than 100,000 Tamil civilians are still being held six months after the conclusion of the island's bloody civil war. UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Sri Lanka will release 136,000 ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees Dec. 1, allowing the civilians to leave squalid and overcrowded government camps after a half-year detainment, a top official said
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Dengue is spreading fast in Vavuniyaa and its suburbs. Two persons have died and thirteen others warded in Vavuniyaa general hospital due to dengue fever until Thursday. Over thousand people seek treatment for dengue in Vavuniyaa general hospital daily and majority of them are internally displaced people now detained in camps in Vavuniyaa, hospital sources said.
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) civil administrative officials in Jaffna refused Friday to permit government employees earlier serving in Vanni to report for duty in Ki'linochchi and Mullaiththeevu districts in Vanni though Northern Province Governor, Major G. A. Chandrasiri had ordered them to report for duty in both districts. Many government employees including teachers who are originally from Ki'linochchi...
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coolgirl | 05/24/2009
After visiting a displacement camp in Sri Lanka on Saturday and flying over the site of the last battle in the country's recently ended civil war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the sites "appalling." Source: CNN
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chakufor22@gmail.com | 05/22/2009
LTTE chief Prabhakaran shot dead by Lankan forces The news of Prabhakaran's death also came along with reports of bodies of his son Charles Anthony and three other top leaders - Pottu Amman, Soosai and Nadesan being found. Prabhakaran was shot dead by Sri Lankan special forces as he tried to stage a dramatic breakout from the army encirclement, a military spokesman said. Read More From Orginal Site
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