They number nearly 10,000 including 160 ex-child
soldiers:
More IDP children sit O/Ls
Nearly 10,000 Vanni IDP children including 160
ex-child soldiers will sit for the GCE Ordinary Level examination in
December, marking a significant increase in the number of candidates
sitting this examination after clearing the area of LTTE rule.
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Rs 9 million a day for IDP upkeep
There are about 250,000 IDPs in welfare villages and
centres. Those people were herded by the LTTE but we rescued them
from the ruthless LTTE after 30 years of terrorism and now provide
them with shelter, food, water and sanitation, education, health and
other facilities spending nine million rupees a day but we did not
invite them,
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UN refugee head promises further assistance to Sri Lanka
Head of the United Nation Refugee Agency Antonio
Gutteres promised Sri Lanka that the agency would further help the
island in the process of caring and resettling the Internally
Displaced Tamil civilians in the North.
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LTTE threats made Rahul Gandhi travel by air
One reason All India Congress Committee
Secretary Rahul Gandhi conducted his Southern India trip recently by
costly air trips was the threat posed by the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE)assassins , the Indian intelligence services have
indicated.
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