Wild life protection is one thing but permitting these human lives to suffer worse than animals for 26 years is another

(Lanka-e-News- 11.May.2015, 12.25 PM) The residents of Sidhampuram and Poonthottam , Vavuniya  displaced during the war  and now in refugee camps are  experiencing untold hardships for the last 26 years , and are continuing to suffer because the authorities have not taken adequate measures to re settle them.

In these refugee camps there are 243 families comprising 513 members . They have not been re settled because in Kilinochchi and Mulaitivu where they resided earlier they don’t own any lands.

These displaced refugees say , though the Vavuniya district secretary took action to  re settle them in fresh lands in Nedunkarni , that has not been implemented yet .

Right now , these abysmally suffering refugees in the two refugee camps have no facilities except water in the wells; they have no other basic facilities including those conducive to hygiene and health , sanitation  and schooling .Besides , because these refugees do not get even their dry rations ,they have to go to the neighboring villages and earn a meager  livelihood on a daily basis by doing menial work .

They are in a most pitiful state for the last 26  long years , in a country where there are many to sympathize with animals , trees and stones  , yet there is  none to show sympathy towards these forlorn humans devastated mentally , physically and emotionally for no fault of their own .

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by   Photo and report – Dinasena Rathugamage from Vavuniya   (2015-05-11 07:17:09)