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Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu return
Sri Lankan Tamil citizens who fled to India due to LTTE terrorist activities in the North and East have started returning in boats even risking their lives, paying large sums of money to Indian fishing boat operators.
The Navy headquarters said the Special Boat Squadron (SBS), operating close to the Indo-Lanka maritime boundary over the last weekend, had rescued 13 persons, including three children stranded on the seventh Sand Bank of the Adam's Bridge off Talaimannar.
According to the Navy sources, they had arrived on Indian fishing crafts and the group comprising seven men, three women and three children had paid Rs 5,000 each for their passage.
The Indian fishing craft had left them on the seventh Sand Bank at the edge of the Sri Lankan territorial waters to pave the way for the Sri Lankan Navy to rescue them.
These people had been living at Vavuniya, Jaffna, Mannar and Nanattan during the earlier phase of terrorist war, had been accommodated at the Mandapam refugee camp in India.
The Sri Lanka government commenced the resettlement of the displaced civilians in their native places once completing the de-mining operations in those areas. It was given the highest priority while developing the infrastructure needed for the civilians in the areas.
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