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SRI LANKA: One year after the war, concerns remain in Sri Lanka

Posted in Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Fact Finding, Foreign Aid, Government, Health Care, History, Internal Displaced Persons, Military, NGOs, Property Damage, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Terrorists, United Nations, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 31, 2010|

31 May 2010 11:33:00 GMT

Written by: ECHO. By Malini Morzaria

I was last in Sri Lanka’s capital city, Colombo, almost a year after India’s Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had been assassinated by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber. 1992 was still a fraught year in Sri Lanka’s civil war.

On-going hostilities between the government and the rebels in the north, thousands killed and displaced by the conflict, a naval commander killed by suicide bombers and senior army officials killed in a land mine explosion. (more…)

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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 , , , on May 28, 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…)

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PHILIPPINES: Filipino refugees in Mindanao begin returning home

Posted in Displacement, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, NGOs, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on May 27, 2010|

More than 2000 refugees from 360 families who were displaced due to armed conflict are going back to their homes in the southern Philippines. (more…)

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PHILIPPINES: Muslim rebels agree to help de-mine, ready for talks

Posted in Displacement, Government, Insurgents, Internal Displaced Persons, Philippines, Property Damage, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on May 21, 2010|

MANILA, 21 May 2010 (IRIN) – Muslim separatists blamed for years of conflict and displacement on the southern island of Mindanao have agreed to help the government rid the area of unexploded ordnance and landmines. (more…)

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NEPAL: Conflict-displaced still afraid to return

Posted in Displacement, Foreign Aid, Internal Displaced Persons, Nepal, NGOs, Peacekeepers, Property Damage, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized, United Nations, tagged , , , , , on May 18, 2010|

Published on 2010-05-18 18:45:14

DADELDHURA, May 18: It has been eight years since the house of Prem Singh Khatri in Jogbudha-3 has remained vacant and his land barren. (more…)

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SRI LANKA: UN warns of Sri Lanka ‘donor fatigue’

Posted in Civilian Casualties, Diplomacy, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Health Care, Internal Displaced Persons, Peacekeepers, Property Damage, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized, United Nations, tagged , , , , , on May 18, 2010|

11:24 GMT, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:24 UK

The UN has warned that “donor fatigue” in Sri Lanka has meant that it has received only 24% of the donor funds it needs to help displaced Tamils. (more…)

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SRI LANKA: One year later, “some kind of peace”

Posted in Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Health Care, History, Internal Displaced Persons, Peacekeepers, Property Damage, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on May 18, 2010|

KILINOCHCHI, 18 May 2010 (IRIN) – As Sri Lanka marked the first anniversary of its victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), many internally displaced people (IDPs) are still battling to rebuild their lives. (more…)

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