Situation Report - June, 2009

GENERAL

• The permission has been given for paddy cultivation in about an extent of 100 acres at Navalady, Arialai east beyond railway road.
• 28 families that lived at Maruthanarmadham railway station for a long time have been asked to leave the place. They were not given any place for resettlement.
• It is reported that there have been some refugees found in a sun dune near Thanushkodi.They have now been rescued by the Indian Navy.

FOOD AND NON-FOOD ITEMS

• Wheat flour and sugar are now abundantly supplied to the M.P.C.S in Jaffna district.
• The price of 1 kg of sugar has been fixed to be Rs.87 for the end consumers.

HEALTH

• There is a Jaffna resident who is being monitored to check whether he has been infected with Swine flu virus.
• Dr.A.Ketheeswaran, the Regional Director of Health Services Jaffna, has commented that there are troubles in terms of lodging facilities of the doctors, although it has been planned to appoint the required number of doctors for Jaffna district.

EDUCATION

• The government has taken necessary steps to conduct special classes for the G.C.E Advanced level students at Vavuniya relief villages.
• The University students at welfare camps will be provided with economical relief.

MISSING AND ARREST

• The government has admitted that the elderly people at interim camps are dying, but naturally.
• It is complained that 20-30 youngsters are disappearing from Vavuniya IDP camps daily. But it has been denied by the government.

INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE

• The particulars of those staying at welfare camps can be known through Human Rights Commission (HRC), Jaffna.
• The official estimation by the government says 287,598 people have displaced on May 11^th only and 262,632 people are now residing at IDP camps.
• The Australian government is searching for 3 of its citizens among the 300,000 IDPs at Vavuniya IDP camps.
• The welfare camp at Vavuniya Gamini Maha vidhyalayam has been closed and 1,698 IDPs who were staying there were shifted to Sumathipuram Welfare camps.
• The High court has ordered the Chief Justice to consider and check the possibilities of the IDPs at welfare camps being released from the camps.
• The International Jury’s Association has requested that the IDPs at Vavuniya welfare camps should be treated according to Geneva Convention.
• There has been a special project inaugurated especially for the IDPs by Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission.

CURFEW

• Curfew has been enforced from 9.00 p.m to 4.00 a.m in Valigamam, Islands, Thenmaradchy and Vadamaradchy divisions.