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Activists visit 12 camps, release interim report
CHENNAI: Seven human rights organisations on Tuesday urged the State Government to publish a White Paper on the condition of the two special camps for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees. They wanted a Commission, headed by a sitting High Court judge, appointed, to study and come out with recommendations to improve the facilities.
G. Sugumaran, secretary of the Pondicherry unit of the Federation for People’s Rights, and A. Marx, convenor of the People’s Union for Human Rights, told reporters here that representatives of the organisations visited 12 camps from June 28 to July 12. They later released an interim report. Facilities at the camps were inadequate.
A number of houses were in bad shape. Several refugees were unable to get medical and other benefits, as they had not been registered or provided with identity cards, it said.
The Hindu / 19.07.2006.
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