Topic: Vavuniya
Two and a half years after the end of Sri Lanka's bloody ethnic conflict, hundreds of families displaced by the war are still engaged in a fraught, exhausting search for missing children.Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians were caught ...
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Sri Lanka's government has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to close its offices in the island's former war zone, the Geneva-based humanitarian agency said Sunday.The government told the ICRC to move out of two northern ...
Sri Lanka's ministry of resettlement on Sunday denied that the last of the camps for the conflict displaced lacked facilities. A group of displaced people on Saturday protested against the government's move to send them from the Manik Farm camp ...
VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's minority Tamils testified before a government-appointed war commission on Saturday alleging rights violations during the final stages of the army's offensive against separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.Witnesses told the commission of loved ones taken ...
Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday conducted the marriages of over 100 former rebels at a mass ceremony attended by Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi.A total of 53 couples were issued marriage certificates in the northern district of Vavuniya, where they are being ...
VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Thousands of ethnic Tamils displaced during Sri Lanka's war have gone home again, but are finding basic services and infrastructure lacking despite a massive government post-war resettlement program.The government has gradually been resettling around 300,000 ...
Thousands of Sri Lankan civilians locked in state-run camps during the island's ethnic conflict walked free Tuesday, officials said, ending mass detentions that were criticised by the UN.Men, women and children poured out of the Manik Farm complex in the ...
Sri Lanka opens up government camps; official says war refugees free to leaveSri Lanka gave permission Tuesday to nearly 127,000 Tamil refugees to leave squalid and overrun government camps where they have been detained since the country's civil war ended ...
Thousands of Sri Lankan civilians locked in state-run camps during the island's ethnic conflict walked free Tuesday, officials said, ending mass detentions that were criticised by the UN.Men, women and children poured out of the Manik Farm complex in the ...
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