High Death Rates among Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka (Response of the Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition to the allegations made against the government of Sri Lanka regarding the health status of IDPS in the welfare village in Chettikulum)
The attention of the Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition has been drawn to reports circulating in the international media regarding in welfare villages in the Vanni.
The Ministry is reliably informed that certain persons and agencies have reported deaths as high as 1400 per week in the IDP villages, a figure which is totally inaccurate and arbitrary and rejected outright by the Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition.
It is pertinent to note that a transparent and efficient mechanism by which the total number of deaths is reported daily to the Ministry; using information supplied by the Ministry officials in place at the IDP welfare villages, the police and the Hospital autho
Statement By Mahinda Samarasinghe, MP, Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights on the Implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
The next few days will prove a watershed in the arduous and protracted search for a viable and workable solution to our country's national question.
The All Party Representative Committee (APRC), which has deliberated upon the various points of view expressed by several actors of every political hue and persuasion over the past year, will present its findings to the President shortly, thus enabling measures to be taken to cement the gains made on the battlefield so that Sri Lankans of every ethnicity can reap the full benefits of the peace, restoration of democracy and security that has been won in the face of adversity
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