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Some 90,000 IDP began their return to their villages in Batticaloa West in eastern Sri Lanka on 14 May. Intense fighting in March between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam had forced them to flee. These IDPs. in a welfare camp in
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