Sri Lanka Refugee Camps

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  Sri Lanka President Pledges Land For 100,000 War Victims

  Up to 100,000 people still living in camps six years after the end of Sri Lanka's brutal ethnic war will be given land to build homes within six months, President Maithripala Sirisena told AFP on Sunday.

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  Former Tamil Politician Claims Second Torture Camp Found in Sri Lanka

  An illegal detention centre similar to the one discovered by UN experts in eastern Sri Lanka has been found in the country's northern Jaffna district, a former Tamil lawmaker has said, alleging that civil war detainees including Tamils were tortured in the camps.

• Myanmar minority resist Cyclone Mahasen evacuation

  A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal.

• Sri Lanka shuts war-time refugee camps

  Camps which housed 300,000 displaced people by the end of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict have now all closed, three years after the war ended, the military said on Tuesday.

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  Lanka opens up refugee camps, allows Tamils to visit relatives

  The government has allowed nearly 1.30 lakh Tamil civilians housed in refugees camps in northern Sri Lanka to visit their relatives as authorities lifted restrictions on their movement.

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  Karunanidhi's 12 crores for Sri Lankan refugees

  In a bid to deflect criticism from the Opposition, the DMK government has allotted Rs 12 crore to make the Lankan refugees' living conditions better.