Dec 05, Colombo: Sri Lankan government is taking steps to resettle the Muslims who had been displaced for 20 years after they were evicted by the LTTE Tamil Tigers from their original places in the North.
The government is to start the resettlement process of the displaced Muslims of the Northern Province, who are currently living in the IDP camps in the Puttalam on December 26th.
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa will launch the programme to resettle over 100,000 displaced Muslims, Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services Minister Risath Bathiyutheen said.
The LTTE began its systematic ethnic cleansing of the North in 1985 by forcibly occupying Muslim properties. On October 28, 1989 the LTTE ordered the Muslim population in Mannar to leave. A year later, on October 30, 1990 over 75,000 Muslims from Jaffna were given two hours to leave the Northern region.
source: ColomboPage