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| War and Peace | | A lot has changed since my last article “War and Websites”. Prabakaran has been declared dead. Celebration in the Sinhalese areas, tears in the Tamil areas. | | More... | |
| Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert Blake met with several U.S.-based organizations representing members of the Tamil diaspora to discuss the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka. | | More... | |
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Sri Lankan Tamils have come as refugees to Tamil Nadu since the conflict in the Island escalated in the early 1980s. The largest influxes have come in the period after July 1983 and in the period 1989 to 1991. The later influxes came between 1996 and 1999 and the most recent influx of over 20,000 persons since April 2006. The governments of Tamil Nadu State and India have continued to extend their support to house the refugees in camps and to provide them with shelter, food rations and a dole. The government also extends services such as health, education and more recently nutrition to refugees living in camps. Despite this aid, the refugees remain vulnerable and economically dependent on government assistance. Refugees are housed in 117 camps in 25 districts all over the state of Tamil Nadu. The trickle of refugees reaching Mandapam camp in Rameswaram on a daily basis continues whilst a similar trend is also seen in families travelling abroad or returning to Sri Lanka. Most refugees are fleeing the fighting and the harassment they face from the parties to the conflict and their proxies.
New Arrivals Data
District Wise Refugees Data
Camp Wise Refugees Data
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