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Sri Lanka says India informed of work plan on war displaced Tamils
2009-07-01 (Wednesday), People's Daily Online
The Sri Lankan government said Wednesday that it had duly informed the government of India of its work plan related to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the north.

Mahinda Samarasinghe, the minister of Human Rights told the local radio station Sirasa that a top level Sri Lankan delegation which visited New Delhi recently had apprised the Indian government on Sri Lanka's action plan and the work that had been done so far.

"Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapakse, Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse and the President's Secretary Lalith Weeratunga have kept the Indian government informed of everything," Samarasinghe said.

The Sri Lankan government's reaction came after a statement made by Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram that Sri Lanka's efforts towards the IDPs were not enough.

"I am not happy over the steps taken so far by Sri Lanka to rehabilitate the Tamils who have become refugees in their own country," Chidambaram was quoted as saying.

Nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians displaced in the last battles between the government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels are currently housed in government maintained welfare camps in the north.

The Sri Lankan government maintains that all facilities have been provided for the IDPs with a 180-day plan to resettle them.

The IDPs came from the Northern Province's Kilinochchi and Mullaittivu districts controlled by the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse announced on May 19 that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had been totally defeated with all the 15,000-sq-km territory formerly held by the rebels being recaptured by the government troops.

Claiming discrimination at the hands of the majority Sinhalese dominated governments, the LTTE began to fight for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east in the 1980s, resulting in the killing of about 100,000 people.

Source: Xinhua



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