09/30/2011
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AlertNet, Reuters, Trust.org
Suresh was one of 2,140 internally displaced people (IDPs) who returned to Suthanthipuram village in June, after MAG released previously inaccessible land that had been contaminated with 69 anti-personnel landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO). He told us he now hopes to study hard and get a good job to support his grandmother when he gets older.
09/21/2011
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Daily Mirror
“I studied in Mullaitivu under great difficulties. I had to study while staying in camps. I don’t want to fall at the feet of anybody except my parents.”
04/02/2011
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Daily Mirror
A group of 206 LTTE cadres who surrendered to the security forces during the military conflict in the North and the East were released yesterday after being rehabilitated for one and half years. They were residents of Vavuniya, Kilinochchi , Mullativu and Jaffna Districts. Additional Secretary to the Minister of Rehabilitation and Prisons P.W. Kodippili was the chief guest at yesterday’s ceremony at the Vavuniya cultural centre.
08/10/2010
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IRIN
KILINOCHCHI, 10 August 2010 (IRIN) - Parvathi Kumar has no idea whether her son is in detention, or worse. He was abducted by the Tamil Tigers in January 2009, and she has not heard from him in more than a year.
07/23/2010
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ColomboPage
July 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka defense authorities say that the state intelligence agencies have unearthed many important information on several hardcore Tamil Tiger terrorists who are involved in international activities of the defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
07/16/2010
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Office of the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sri Lanka, ReliefWeb
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Ι. SITUATION OVERVIEW & HIGHLIGHTS
Return update
- Approximately 20,600 IDPs were released / returned during May mostly from Menik Farm and, to a lesser extent, from host families. As of 20 May, 60,900 IDPs await resettlement in Menik Farm.
- Humanitarian actors continue to support the Competent Authority for IDPs to determine the mine contamination status of proposed return locations. Some IDPs are accommodated in secondary transit centres until the completion of demining operations allow for access to their lands. Advance notice of return movements assist IDPs in Menik Farm to make preparations for their return.
- Local administrations have adopted different arrangements for IDPs from host families returning to their places of origin. IDPs travel from Vavuniya District to Mullaitivu District in organized convoys, allowing authorities to receive them and check documentation. Returnees to Kilinochchi District find their own transport to the Central College transit site, where registration and onward movements to villages are organized.
06/21/2010
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Norwegian Refugee Council, ReliefWeb
Over 60,000 Muslim persons expelled from their native districts of Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar and Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1990 have been living in a state of protracted displacement for the past 20 years in the Puttalam district. Few initiatives, both on the part of government and non-governmental actors have sought to address the needs and concerns of these individuals, many of whom continue to identify themselves as uprooted persons distinct from the host community in Puttalam. NOTE: THIS IS THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. CLICK FOR LINK TO FULL REPORT.