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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 7.20 GMT
Only 45, 998 IDPs remaining in Vavuniya

 
The total number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) remaining in welfare centers in the North as of today (29 June) is 45, 998, according to Colonel Vadugodapitiya, Chief Coordinating Officer of the Competent Office for IDPs in Vavuniya.

All IDPs are free to move outside their welfare centres and return on dates they specify. 

Nearly 300,000 escaped from the LTTE during humanitarian operations carried out by the Sri Lankan military and the government has been providing them with shelter, food and other necessities in welfare villages.

Out of those remaining in welfare centers, 1500 IDPs in Menik Farm relief village will be resettled in Karachchi, Kilinochchi tomorrow (June 30).

The Government will resettle 10,000 IDPs in Menik Farm to other areas in Kilinochchi by July 26.

The Chief Coordinating Officer states that each week within the month of July, around 3000 IDPs will be resettled to their places of origin.
 

 
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