Sri Lanka Conflict Monitor – Sri Lanka to release 136,000 war-displaced Tamils (FOX 11 Tucson)
Sri Lanka to release 136,000 war-displaced Tamils (FOX 11 Tucson)
MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka (AP) — An senior Sri Lankan official says all ethnic-minority Tamil detainees will be freed from government camps Dec. 1.
Half of Sri Lanka’s displaced civilians resettled (Press TV)
Sri Lanka says it has resettled almost half of the country’s 280,000 displaced civilians trapped in refugee camps, since it won its fight against the Tamil Tiger rebels.
UN to help Sri Lanka resettle war displaced civilians (People’s Daily)
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 …
Sri Lanka to free war-displaced civilians (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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.
Be careful while in Sri Lanka, US says (MalaysiaNews.net)
Colombo, Nov 20 (IANS) The security situation in Sri Lanka has improved since the defeat of the Tamil Tigers but Americans travelling to the country should remain careful, the US said Friday.
Sri Lanka: Tamil, Muslim political parties find their table in Zurich (TamilNet)
Widely speculated as a drama backed by high-powers, leaders of most of the Tamil and Muslim political parties in the island of Sri Lanka are meeting for the first time in Zurich, Switzerland, between Thursday and Saturday. The move is said to be for extracting a joint proclamation of them necessary for further power manoeuvres in the island. A couple of years ago it was such a behind-the-scene …
Sri Lanka detainees ‘to be freed’ (BBC News)
Sri Lanka says thousands of people held in camps since the fight against the Tamil Tigers ended will soon be free to leave.
Sri Lanka hastens Tamil camp clearance (Asia Times)
COLOMBO – Thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils, forced to stay in camps after being displaced from their homes by fighting between government troops and separatist rebels, will be returning to their homes in war-torn areas by January, sooner than expected.
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