COLOMBO, 30 March 2011 (IRIN) – Thousands of older returnees to Sri Lanka’s conflict-affected north feel marginalized and need medical care, experts say. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘LTTE’
SRI LANKA: Older returnees face isolation, poverty
Posted in Displacement, Health Care, Internal Displaced Persons, Sri Lanka, United Nations, tagged Displacement, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Tamil civilians, Tamil Tigers, United Nations on April 1, 2011 |
SRI LANKA: Older returnees face isolation, poverty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged civil war, civilian, displaced, elderly, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers on March 30, 2011 |
COLOMBO, 30 March 2011
(IRIN)
Thousands of older returnees to Sri Lanka’s conflict-affected north feel marginalized and need medical care, experts say. (more…)
SRI LANKA: Huge civilian toll in Lanka war: Indian doc
Posted in Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Health Care, Internal Displaced Persons, Military, NGOs, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, United Nations, tagged Civilian Casualties, doctors, eyewitness, IDPs, injured civilians, LTTE, malnutrition, no-fire zone, Sri Lankan government, Sri Lankan military, Tamils on June 1, 2010 |
Colombo, June 01, 2010
Last Updated: 08:42 IST(1/6/2010)
One year after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, one of the Indian doctors who treated Tamil refugees during the last months of the conflict says there were “massive casualties” among the civilian population. (more…)
SRI LANKA: Gradual shutting down of welfare villages takes place
Posted in Displacement, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, Property Damage, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Terrorists, tagged LTTE, resettlement, return, Sri Lankan government on May 28, 2010 |
Source: Government of Sri Lanka
Date: 28 May 2010
The President has given instructions to shut down all welfare villages within the next three months after resettling all the displaced of the North. About 300,000 displaced due to the activities of the LTTE terrorists had already been successfully resettled. (more…)
SRI LANKA: Truth commission dogged by scepticism
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, NGOs, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized, United Nations, tagged accountability, AI, human rights abuses, ICG, impunity, Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation' Commission, LTTE, NGOs, Sri Lankan government, USA, war crimes on May 19, 2010 |
COLOMBO, 19 May 2010 (IRIN) - Local activists have expressed doubts over the effectiveness of a truth and reconciliation commission established by the Sri Lankan government, which will investigate events in the final years of the civil war that ended a year ago. (more…)
