08/10/2010
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Groundviews
In June 2010 the Minister for Resettlement, Milroy Fernando stated that there were 60,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka and that the Government would resettle them by August 2010. With some 30,000 IDPs remaining in Menik Farm at the end of July it would not be impossible for the Government to close the camp down and meet this self-imposed deadline.
11/03/2009
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Daily Mirror
This October marked the nineteenth anniversary of the expulsion of the Northern Muslims. In this one act of ethnic cleaning the LTTE forcibly evicted the entire Muslim population from the five districts of the Northern Province resulting in the mass displacement and dispossession of over 60,000 persons.