What is the meaning of resettlement in Sri Lanka: "We want our land back as we are also citizens of Sri Lanka".

When you read the field visit report of the resettlement of the Internally Displaced People[IDPs] you all will realize the reality of the so called resettlement scheme of the country. Uduppitty, Moor Street, Mullikulam, displaced camps as well as so called Thiru Murugandi, and Sinnaveli resettled camps are the places where we visited in this field work.

"It is well planned revenge against us." This is some of the complains we heard from various community members in the northern province and which is an unfortunate situation. It is justifiable criticism of the northern province IDPs when the government is not take care of those people, their needs and fulfill their reasonable aspirations with due respect and care.

Some of the people in those camps said, "Government act deliberately forgetting there is a remaining group of IDP like us to resettle in the country."

The government very firmly says that there the most of IDPs have been resettled and there is only very small number of people are remaining to resettle in the north. The general public in the south of Sri Lanka also trust highly those media reports without any doubts. There is a big question mark about the free media as well though this is not the time to discuss it.

The complete version of report can be seen here