Although the focus is on internally displaced persons reaching government-run welfare centres in Vavuniya and Mannar districts, a sizeable group of people have sought refuge in the Jaffna peninsula by end of March.
Over 5,000 men, women and children have reached the peninsula over the past few months as the army gradually liberated areas held by the LTTE.
Almost 68,000 people have reached the government-held area leaving about 60,000 in the no firing zone held...

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swansong?
As the country prepared to celebrate the Sinhala
and Tamil New Year, we seem...