The Government originally proposed holding the Tamil refugees for up to three years to check they were not Tigers. (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images)From Times Online:
Sri Lankan authorities appear to be building permanent camps to house many of the 300,000 refugees from the last phase of the war with the Tamil Tiger rebels, despite promising to resettle 80 per cent of them by the end of the year.
Aid workers have told The Times that permanent buildings are being erected at the Manik Farm site where the UN says that 230,000 of the refugees are being held after the Tigers’ defeat in May.
The aid workers said that they were able to do humanitarian work in four of six zones at Manik Farm but were barred from two others, including the mysteriously named Zone Zero.
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My Comment: 200 men are kept at Guantanamo .... most of them hard cold killers and enablers for killers .... and there is world outrage. Within the U.S. itself, politicians are convulsing themselves on what is the legal status and constitutional rights for these detainees.
Sri Lanka imprisons 300,000 .... including women and children .... outrage is absent or muted at best.
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