Vanni Tamil IDPs suffer in flooded Vavuniyaa/ Sinhala Death/ Prison camps,,,,including 35000 Tamil Students..!!!

Vanni IDPs suffer in flooded Vavuniyaa camps
[TamilNet, Saturday, 07 November 2009, 16:56 GMT]

Most of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) internment camps for Vanni IDPs in Vavuniyaa being flooded due to the current down pour many of the IDPs held in Menik Farm camp had fled from their shelters seeking refuge in the public halls and school buildings located inside the camp, sources in Vavuniyaa said. Meanwhile, amid heavy rains and thunder civil authorities continue to transfer IDPs from Menik Farm during nights and drop them in public places in areas where their homes are located.

These IDPs with their bags and baggage are stranded without any one to take them to safe places till they find their way to their homes in nights.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

35,000 IDP students still held in Vavuniyaa internment camps
[TamilNet, Friday, 06 November 2009, 09:15 GMT]
Thirty-five thousand students displaced from Vanni in the last leg of war are still being detained in internment camps in Vavuniyaa. The number of IDP students in these internment camps earlier was about 65,000. The number had dropped to 35,000 following current resettlement, education authority sources claim.

UNESCO has provided 50,000 US dollars for the maintenance of these IDP students.

Part of UNESCO funds would be used to improve mental health related facilities of the students and for this purpose multimedia projectors for short films, computer games, music, drawing materials and books worth about Rs.3.5 million were handed over to the education authorities.


TamilNet URL: http://www.tamilnet.com email: tamilnet@tamilnet.com