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REFUGEES FROM NORTH OF SRI LANKA IN CROW ISLAND, COLOMBO. EYE WITNESS REPORT ON THE PRESENT STATUS AND A PROJECT PROPOSAL
“Even though they have been living for twenty years in Colombo, away from home, none can claim that leaving their home town and settling in Colombo have gained any advantage. It has been agony and problems and difficulties one after another....
LLRC submission: The Citizens’ Commission on the Expulsion of Muslims from the North by the LTTE in October 1990
[Editors' note: Submission to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, 4th of November, 2010.] Northern Muslims in Post Conflict Sri Lanka The entire Muslim community of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province – numbering...
Resettle Displaced Muslims in Jaffna, By Sumaiya Rizvi
Iran to help An Iranian delegation was scheduled to arrive in the island today to visit Muslim Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka, who marked 20 years since their eviction from the Jaffna Peninsula recently, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Iran M.M Zuhair...
THE FORGOTTEN COMMUNITY IN SRI LANKA
It is unfortunate that even though Muslim population in Sri Lanka forms a significant chunk, approximately seven percent, of it; very few are aware of the trials they have been facing and still face since the formation of the terrorist group Liberation...
Puttalam Refugees
Twenty years on and hundreds of Muslim IDPs who were forcefully evicted by the LTTE from the north, continue to languish in Puttalam. Still living in temporary shelters, they speak of their plight, fears and the hope for a better future. Source...
Difficult homecoming for Muslim IDPs
PUTTALAM, 22 March 2010 (IRIN) – Resettlement efforts are under way for thousands of displaced Muslims from Sri Lanka’s north who have been languishing in refugee camps for nearly two decades, officials say. The internally displaced people (IDPs)...
JAFFNA MUSLIM REFUGEES IN COLOMBO, By AGA Barrie
‘Muhajireen Refugee Camp’ in Crow Island and they are from the Jaffna town. On Tuesday the 2nd of March, 2010, Ali Azeez and I decided to pay a visit to the long forgotten refugees living on Crow Island in Mutwal, Colombo. Even though the...
SAILAN MUSLIM FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVES VISIT TO PUTTALAM
JAFFNA SITUATION REPORT ON MUSLIM IDP’S It is unfortunate that to this day, the situation of Muslim IDP’s languishing in refugee camps remains unsettled. It is now two decades since they were displaced from their homes in Jaffna as a result of ethnic...
Treatment of Tamil IDPs and Muslim Refugees Double Standard on Human Sufferings Stinks High Heaven
Part of this article, dealing up to the Indian involvement, was published in the Ceylon Daily Mirror on Tuesday 22 September 2009 It is heartening to note the swift international response to the misery of Internally Displaced Tamils. There is no doubt...
