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Resettling IDPs find homes in North-East Sri Lanka looted and damaged

Internally Displaced People who were allowed to resettle in their original homes in the Valikamam found their homes destroyed by vandal upon return.

Families returned to their houses, which had been marked for resettlement over a month ago, to find windows, doors and roofs missing from the structures.

Ceylon Today quotes one internally displaced person in the North-East as saying,

“We lived as IDPs for the past 27 years in welfare centres and in the houses of our relatives and friends. Now we have returned to our own lands without any support to start a new life. All our immovable assets are either damaged or have been stolen.”

The recently resettled families also reported that thieves had burgled their homes within days of moving in.

At least 25 people have been caught with stolen items suggest local police reports. 

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