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Over 365,000 IDPs return to North

June 26, 2011, 10:01 pm
by Shamindra Ferdinando

The UN and its NGO partners, in their latest bulletin dealing with the situation in May 2011, have said that in May, 58 families (171 persons) returned to their areas of origin in Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi from Menik Farm and Kodikamam Ramavil IDP facilities.
They said a further 620 families (2,130 persons) living with friends and relatives, too, had returned to their homes in Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts.
According to the latest available official data, since the conclusion of the conflict, 110,652 families (365,082) have returned to the Northern Province. The returnees comprised those displaced before April 2008 and after. Among the returnees are post-April 2008 displaced consisting of 45.024 families (157,269 persons).
Following the conclusion of the war, 5,284 families (17,488 persons), displaced since April 1, 2008 remained in welfare camps, awaiting clearance to return to their places of origin. Besides them, 2,360 families (8,521 persons), displaced before April 2008, too, remained in welfare centres.
A total 189,221 IDPs are living with host families.