Resettling displaced Muslims of Sri Lanka's north have to return permanent houses they built in refugee camps - deputy Minister

Deputy Minister of Resettlement Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman says if the Muslims displaced from Jaffna needed to resettle in their home town again, they would have to return the permanent buildings they have constructed in the long term refugee camps they lived.


The former Eastern Commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) had made these remarks to the Sinhala daily Divaina yesterday.

In 1990, the LTTE ethnically cleansed the Muslims out of Jaffna and other areas in Northern Province that was under their rein and most of the displaced Muslims lived for nearly 20 years in refugee camps in Puttalam in the Northwestern Province.

The Deputy Minister said that 36,963 Muslim families were displaced from Northern and Eastern Provinces and 16,196 families of them have been resettled now.