COI Report March 2012 - UK Border Agency - Home Office
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COI Report March 2012 - UK Border Agency - Home Office
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7 MARCH <strong>2012</strong> SRI LANKA<br />
―By the end of December 2011, 421,056 people (126,524 families) had returned to the<br />
Northern Province. This figure includes 223,745 people (70,625 families) displaced after<br />
April 2008 and 197,311 persons (55,899 families) displaced before April 20081.At the<br />
end of November [2011] 6,732 IDPs (2,044 families), displaced after April 2008<br />
remained in camps awaiting return to their areas of origin. An additional 7,518 IDP<br />
(2,040 families) from the protracted or long-term caseload, displaced prior to April 2008,<br />
remained in camps in Jaffna and Vavuniya districts.‖<br />
24.16 On 10 January <strong>2012</strong> the official website of the Government of Sri Lanka 484 reported<br />
that:<br />
―The total number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Menik Farm relief village<br />
has declined to 6,553 as of today (Jan. 10)<br />
―The Government has released and resettled 275,065 IDPs so far under its programme<br />
for speedy resettlement.<br />
―Accordingly, 236,429 IDPs from Vavuniya, Mannar, Trincomalee and other districts<br />
have been resettled in their places of origin.<br />
―The Government released 27,720 IDPs for humanitarian reasons. They include the<br />
elderly, university students, infants with family members, pregnant women and foreign<br />
passport holders.<br />
―10, 916 IDPs in the Jaffna District were also resettled in their places of origin, including<br />
Jaffna, Mannar, Vavuniya and Trincomalee.‖<br />
24.17 On 3 February <strong>2012</strong> the official website of the Government of Sri Lanka 485 announced:<br />
―Around 98 percent of the nearly 300,000 Internally Displaced People (IDP) in the North<br />
have been resettled so far.<br />
―According to the Minister [of Resettlement ] 724,135 people or 216,412 families have<br />
been resettled in their original abodes in the cleared areas of the Northern Province.<br />
―Only 6,556 people of 1,965 families still remain in two IDP camps either due to the<br />
delay in demining their home areas or they have no other place to go.‖<br />
24.18 The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) Country page Sri Lanka, Country<br />
Statistics 486 , (accessed on 3 February <strong>2012</strong>) recorded:<br />
http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/srilanka_hpsl/Files/Situation%20<strong>Report</strong>s/Joint%20Humanitarian%20U<br />
pdate/LKRN057_JHERU_Nov-Dec_2011.pdf, date accessed 5 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
484 Official website of the Government of Sri Lanka, IDPs drop to 6,553, 10 January <strong>2012</strong><br />
http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca<strong>2012</strong>01/<strong>2012</strong>0110idp_drop.htm date accessed 26<br />
January <strong>2012</strong><br />
485 Official website of the Government of Sri Lanka, IDPs drop to 6,553, 3 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca<strong>2012</strong>02/<strong>2012</strong>0203over_210000_idp_families_res<br />
ettled.htm date accessed 5 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
The main text of this <strong>COI</strong> <strong>Report</strong> contains the most up to date publicly available information as at 3 February <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Further brief information on recent events and reports has been provided in the Latest News section<br />
to 2 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
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