- - on 09/19/2013
On 25th September 2012, the Menik Farm camp in Vavuniya, which at its peak, housed close to 300,000 internally displaced persons, was officially closed down when the Government of Sri Lanka relocated the last batch of IDPs. This formally marked the closure of all post-2009 IDP camps in the North of Sri Lanka. Termed ‘welfare villages’ or ‘relief villages’ by the Government[1] but widely viewed as internment camps[2][3][4], the camps initially dotted the districts of Jaffna, Vavuniya, Mannar and Trincomalee before being later incorporated into the massive Menik Farm IDP camp in the Vavuniya District.
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