But Senathiraja accused the authorities on Thursday of simply shifting hundreds of these people to other camps, while thousands of others promised freedom were never moved at all.
The government denied the allegation.
Government troops routed the Tamil Tigers in May, ending their 25-year fight for an independent homeland for the country’s ethnic minority Tamils after decades of discrimination by successive governments controlled by majority ethnic Sinhalese. Some 80,000 to 100,000 people were killed in the violence.
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