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  puni1Nov. 22, 2009 - 01:21PM JST

  Aid agencies are prevented from helping the IDPs in getting the immediate needs and to start their livelihood: http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16332&size=A Tamil refugees going home to an open prison, 15 September 2009: “We are living in an open prison,” said Fr Seemanpillai Jayabalan, parish priest in Aripputhurai. “People have no hope for development. They have lost their property and many homes are a total write-off.” NGOs are not allowed in the area and “all aid must go through the government’s Rehabilitation Task Force,” the clergyman said.

  http://www.groundviews.org/2009/11/18/180-days-after-end-of-war-the-much-anticipated-return-of-idps-an-eyewitness-account/ 180 days after end of war, the much anticipated return of IDPs: An eyewitness account, 18 November 2009: ''When I inquired about complaining the disappearance and arbitrary arrest cases to international agencies I was told that even ICRC did not have access to Manik Farm and the detention (rehabilitation) centres since July.''

  It has been political and economic oppression of Tamils from the time of ''independence'':

  Discrimination by government institutions

  +economic embargo

  • Periodic anti-Tamil pogroms

  • Draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act

  • Bombing and shelling

  • preventing IDPs(who have been displaced around the Northeast several times and who have been denied tsunami foreign aid) from getting help from aid agencies is simply not Degeneration, it's GENOCIDE.

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