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Displaced Sri Lankans Receive Aid as Tamil Tigers Defeated
FrontLines - June 2009
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—Sri
Lankan troops on May 19 ended
the 25-year-old insurrection by
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam, killing Tiger leader
Velupillai Prabhakaran, said
military spokesman Brig. Udaya
Nanayakkara.
Since the beginning of the war,
it is estimated that over 70,000
people were killed. Definitive
numbers on deaths and wounded
in the recent fighting are not
available since the government of
Sri Lanka did not allow journalists
or international organizations
into the conflict area.
U.N. refugee agency spokesman
Ron Redmond said an
estimated 80,000 people left the
former war zone in the last three
days of fighting, bringing the
number of internally displaced
persons (IDPs) to more than
280,000, mostly confined to
displacement camps in Jaffna,
Mannar, Trincomalee, and
Vavuniya districts.
During the final months of
the war, USAID provided funding
solely for emergency, lifesaving
assistance to displaced populations. Lack of access
to the camps for donors, U.N.
agencies, and NGOs, as well as
restricted movement of IDPs
within the camps, are continuing
concerns for the Agency.
In 2008 and 2009, USAID
contributed nearly $60 million
for food and other aid to care for
the displaced.
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