TRICHY: A special camp of the
United Nations High Commission
for Refugees (
UNHCR
) held here to guide
Sri Lankan refugees
on repatriation to their home received a good response from the refugees with many of them expressing a desire to go back.
As a part of the programme, two officials from UNHCR in Chennai conducted the two-day camp at the
district collectorate
on Monday.
"A total of 16 members from nine families attended the camp. They are interested in returning to their home towns in Sri Lanka. Most of them who came today are natives of Jaffna and Vavuniya," regional special deputy collector, S Natarasan told TOI.
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