A Sri Lanka Government official charged that UN agencies, INGOs and NGOs had refused to
cooperate in preparing facilities to receive 250,000 IDPs in Vavuniya at the
end of the conflict.
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| A batch of LTTE cadres rehabilitated by the Sri Lanka Government await their reintegration to society at the Vavuniya Town Hall, April 2011. (Photo: Ranjit J. Perera) |
Vavuniya Government Agent, Mrs. P.S.M. Charles told this
writer in an exclusive interview last year, that the government decided to proceed to
prepare the infrastructure to receive at least 250,000 people (at the Menik Farm) after the UN
agencies, INGOs and NGOs had a heated argument with the GA and refused to cooperate. She also said that
the government around the same time sent food and essential items for 400,000
people knowing very well that it was an over-estimation, on the basis that even
the LTTE cadres were citizens of Sri Lanka.
She also spoke of how the government on its own organised a
food convoy to LTTE held areas following a delay in the WFP getting security
clearance from its own security advisors.
(The interview was conducted as part of a documentation
process and has not been published before. The decision to publish extracts was
made in fairness to the large number of people who value the new found freedom
in Sri Lanka and yet are helpless in the face of the heavy international media barrage in view of the US sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka due to be tabled at the 19th Session of the UNHRC.)
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