Life has changed for the better - Killinochchi resident
"The worst seems to be over. It is hard to believe it has been three
years, life has changed so much. During the war, our sole focus was how
we were going to survive the next day or the next hour," said
Nishanthan, an orphan in Kilinochchi.
Nishanthan grew up in a foster-care home and was forced to postpone
his university entrance exam in August 2009 by heavy fighting.
At the age of 19 he fled to his home village, returning to
Kilinochchi in 2010 where he has since resumed his studies, Integrated
Regional Information Network(IRIN) reported. Life is slowly returning to
normal in North, but jobs and housing are the prevailing concerns of
returnees,( IRIN) said.
Most of the estimated people displaced before or during the conflict
have returned to the Northern Province, according to the latest figures
from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
(Courtesy defence. lk)
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