Author : Source Wikipedia
Release : 2013-09
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Download or read book Refugee Camps written by Source Wikipedia. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Breidjing Camp, Buduburam, Camp Ashraf, Camp Liberty, Cyprus internment camps, El Shatt, Fort Butler (Murphy, North Carolina), Fort Cass, Galang Refugee Camp, Great Lakes refugee crisis, Immigrant camps (Israel), Kalma, Sudan, Kiliba, Kissy, Sierra Leone, Kjesater, Ma'abarot, Malmsheim Airfield, Mandapam Camp, Nong Chan Refugee Camp, Nyarugusu, Oreryd, Osire, Simbal Camp, Sri Lankan IDP camps, Transitional shelter, Witch camp. Excerpt: The final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War created 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were transferred to camps in Vavuniya District and detained there against their will. This process, together with conditions inside the camps and the slow progress of resettlement attracted much concern and criticism from inside and outside Sri Lanka. On 7 May 2009 the Sri Lankan government announced plans to resettle 80% of the IDPs by the end of 2009. After the end of the civil war Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave assurances to foreign diplomats that the bulk of the IDPs would be resettled in accordance with the 180 day plan. On 1 December 2009, the IDPs were given limited freedom of movement. The pace of resettlement increased in 2010. The resettlement process was completed and camps were officially closed on 25 September 2012. However, the final batch of IDPs consisting of 110 families were relocated in Kepapilavu in Mullaitivu District-away from their original homes. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) had been waging a full scale war for an independent state of Tamil Eelam in the North and East of Sri Lanka since 1983. After the failure of the Norwegian mediated peace process in 2006 the Sri Lankan Military launched military offensives aimed at recapturing the territory controlled by the Tamil Tigers. By July 2007 the military had recaptured all of...