UN: 90,000 displaced return home
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The resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons is
continuing at a rapid pace |
About a third of those displaced during the conflict in Sri Lanka
have returned home over the past three months, the UN refugee agency
said yesterday.
“Some 90,000 internally displaced people have returned to their
villages in Sri Lanka’s north and east over the past three months, under
the ongoing return plan of the Sri Lankan government,” said Andrej
Mahecic, spokesman for the office of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR).
These include 39,000 people who have headed home in the last two
weeks “as part of the government’s efforts to accelerate the process,”
he added. AFP
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