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Development’s from 2010 to 2012

TODAY’S SRI LANKA

Development’s from 2010 to 2012

TODAY’S SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka successfully concluded a war against a terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009. There has been no terrorist violence in Sri Lanka since the end of the conflict. Today, Sri Lanka today is aggressively promoting ethnic reconciliation, redevelopment of conflict-affected areas and expanded trade and foreign investment for the restoration of normalcy throughout the island.

Sri Lanka successfully concluded a war against a terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009. There has been no terrorist violence in Sri Lanka since the end of the conflict. Today, Sri Lanka today is aggressively promoting ethnic reconciliation, redevelopment of conflict-affected areas and expanded trade and foreign investment for the restoration of normalcy throughout the island.

RESETTLEMENT, DEMINING & REHABILITATION
• 98% of those who had been displaced have been resettled. Only 6,022 persons remain to be resettled out of 295,000 persons. 94% of the area in the former theatre of conflict has been cleared of landmines laid by the LTTE during the conflict, with 120 square kilo meters remaining to be completed by the end of June 2012. The demining has been done by the Sri Lanka Army with international assistance, including that of the U.S. Amnesty has been granted to more than 12,000 former LTTE combatants and child soldiers who surrendered at the end of the conflict. So far, the government has released 10,875 ex-combatants after their successful rehabilitation through vocational and educational training.

RESETTLEMENT, DEMINING & REHABILITATION
• 98% of those who had been displaced have been resettled. Only 6,022 persons remain to be resettled out of 295,000 persons. 94% of the area in the former theatre of conflict has been cleared of landmines laid by the LTTE during the conflict, with 120 square kilo meters remaining to be

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