Sri Lanka plans to resettle refugees in six months

By C. Bryson Hull
COLOMBO (Reuters)

"The Government of Sri Lanka indicated that it was their intention to dismantle the relief camps at the earliest and outlined a 180-day plan to resettle the bulk of (refugees) to their original places of habitation," a joint statement said.

The Tigers had said the government planned to hold people indefinitely in what it dubbed "concentration camps."

Sri Lanka has said it needs to keep people inside the camps long enough to weed out potential Tiger infiltrators, and the United Nations has since said the camps meet international standards aside from the limited freedom of movement.

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