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UNHCR Inspector meets with displaced Sri Lankans

Resolving fate of 370,000 displaced Sri Lankans ‘critical’ – UN refugee agency

29 April 2004
The United Nations refugee agency today said it was “critical” to resolve the plight of 370,000 displaced Sri Lankans, victims of a separatist conflict that has claimed more than 65,000 lives in the past two decades, by restoring property rights, clearing landmines, and investing in housing, schools, health and other services.
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UNICEF calls for Sri Lanka’s rebels to end recruitment of child soldiers

19 April 2004
Confirming the deaths of two child soldiers last week during fighting between two factions of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on the rebel group to free its remaining child soldiers and not to re-recruit those it has already released.
Displaced Sri Lankans at Trincomalee district school

UN reports largest release so far of child soldiers by Sri Lanka’s Tamil rebels

14 April 2004
In the single biggest formal release of child soldiers by Sri Lanka’s main rebel Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has facilitated the return of nearly 150 children out of the hundreds and possibly thousands still in rebel ranks.
Displaced Sri Lankans at Trincomalee district school

Thousands of Sri Lankans return home after rebels end factional fighting - UN

13 April 2004
Most of the more than 3,000 Sri Lankans who fled their homes at the weekend to escape an uprising by a breakaway faction in the eastern region against the main rebel Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) in the north have returned home, the United Nations refugee agency said today.