Colombo: Sri Lanka has resettled over 1,000 displaced Tamils in their towns and village in the country`s war-torn northern region.
The government yesterday resettled 1,161 displaced
Tamils -- 1093 persons (319 families) in Kondaweli DS Division
and 68 persons (17 families) in Manthei-- in Kilinochchi
District.
Arrangements are also being made to resettle around
800 IDPs in Nedunkeni North and West today, officials said.
They said the Government was paying a great deal of
attention to resettle all displaced persons.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) has, meanwhile, appealed for funds to the tune of 23
million dollars l to assist the resettlement in the North.
The funding for the FAO emergency response plan aims
to promote self-sufficiency and prevent further dependency on
food aid for some 50,000 rural families returning to the
northeast of Sri Lanka, a statement said.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
said he cannot give a time period for the completion of houses
for the displaced in the North.
"How can I give a time frame? I am not a carpenter or
a mason to answer that. Neither am I a civil engineer," the
Prime Minister told the Daily Mirror newspaper in reply to a
question.
Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health Care and
Nutrition said the healthcare requirements of the displaced
persons in the Northern Province will continue to be
addressed.
PTI
