Resettled war victims left high and dry without food

By JDS
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A fresh group of over 250 internally displaced people, brought from the internment camps to be resettled in the Madhu Assistant Government Agent (AGA) division, was reportedly left without basic infrastructure facilities, including food.

According to reports from Jaffna, the government authorities have brought in 257 internally displaced Tamil civilians of 110 families from the internment camps in Vavuniya to the Periyapandi Virichchan Maha Vidyalayam to resettle them in the area.

“This fresh group of people, including children were brought in to the school on Monday morning to be resettled in the Madhu Assistant Government Agent (AGA) division, but they remained there till Tuesday evening. They were starving, even the children without milk food,” a report said.

The people have been asked to resettle themselves in their own native villages, which are lying without basic infrastructure facilities after war and are totally unfit for immediate resettlement.

“Although it is nearly 48 hours since the people were brought in to this school aiming to be resettled, no authorities have visited them yet,” the report said.

Analysts say that this is yet another instance where the war victims are being resettled without basic infrastructure facilities, after languishing in detention camps after several months since 2008, just an eye-wash to tackle the international pressure.

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