NEW DELHI: About 39,000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees have returned to their homes from southern India in the last year and a half, Indian government officials and relief workers in Sri Lanka said today.
The last two groups about 600 people, arrived in Si Lanka over two days last week, Their return virtually empties the official Tamil guerrillas and the Sri Lankan armed forces.
The Tamils were to be resettled in Sri Lanka’s newly created Northeast Province by the Colombo office of the United Nations High! Commissioner for Refugees, officials said.
The refugees safe return is expected to affect the claims of other Tamils fighting deportation from Europe, the United States and Canada, who argue that they would be endangered if sent home.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 14, 1989
