No more IDPs in Sri Lanka from today, last group will leave camps

Sri Lankan authorities say that there would not be any internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country from today. Security Forces Commander, Major General Boniface Perera, who is the Competent Authority for IDPs in the Northern region, has told the media that the last group of over 300,000 displaced persons during the war in the North will return to their original hometowns in the Mullaitivu District today.