TAMIL IDPs not received the freedom they expected when escaping the clutches of the LTTE during the war..!!

Economic imbalance in IDP camps

CSII receives 723 complaints

By Yohan Perera

The JVP led Centre to Scan Issues of IDPs (CSII) had received 723 complaints from the displaced people in Welfare Villages in Vavuniya, its convenor JVP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath said yesterday.

He pointed out that the major issue had been the growing mental distress of the less fortunate who were unable to obtain essential items unlike the others who were economically capable.

Mr. Herath told a news conference that this situation had become a serious issue in the camps according to the complaints received from the IDPs.

Quoting these complaints he said that there were IDP families who had brought large sums of cash with them when they were left their homes while there were others who received cash from their relatives residing abroad. He said these people with cash were able to purchase the necessary provisions from various shops that were set up within the camps while others who were without cash were unable to do it.

“This has caused mental distress among the poor people within the camps and it had become a serious issue,” he said. Some displaced people had complained that there was difficulty in obtaining milk powder while stocks of essential items such as rice, flour and dhal were provided for groups of 50 families.

Mr. Herath read out a letter sent by a female who had worked as the Planning Officer in a state organization in which she had appealed for freedom.

She had also said that they had not received the freedom they expected when escaping the clutches of the LTTE during the war.

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