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Last updated: 14 July, 2010 - Published 15:04 GMT
 
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Nearly 40,000 IDPs in camps
 
Menik Farm camp in Vavuniya (file photo)
Government says further 3000 IDPs will be resettled before the end of the month
Nearly 40,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) are remaining in the camps in the north, the Sri Lanka government has said.

The official website of Sri Lanka government quoted to Colonel Vadugodapitiya, Chief Coordinating Officer of the Competent Office for IDPs in Vavuniya that only 38,127 IDPs are currently in the camps.

Nearly 300,000 people were made homeless last year after fierce fighting between the government security forces and the Tamil Tigers.

The biggest IDP camp in Vavuniya, Menik Farm, is also reduced to four zones, Col Vadugodapitiya has said.

The government has announced plans to further resettle 3000 IDPs in Karachchi, Kilinochchi before the end of this month.

 
 
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