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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12569370" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSw8Pz23dGetJq9wO-2leo60bR1sCbMGCG5XVKzQEPFyYWTprlS6Q" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Internally Displaced people (IDPs) who were originally living in the  Mullathivu Coast and were engaged in fisheries as a livelihood have been  resettled in an inland village Thimbili in the same district by  violating the UN Convention on the status of refugees, JVP charged  today. JVP Propaganda Secretary Vijitha Herath told a news conference today that  these people are made to resettle in a 400 perch land. These people he  said were unable to re-start their livelihood as they are made to  resettle in an area which is far from the coast. “This, he said “is not ‘resettlement’ but ‘relocation’ ‘according to the  UN convention,” he said alleging that forests have been cleared to  resettle the IDPs.Mr. Herath said what the internally displaced persons (IDPs) want is to  go back to the villages in which they were residing earlier and this is  the very thing they have told the Indian Parliamentary delegation that  visited Manik farm recently. Therefore he said talks on power devolution which goes beyond the 13th  Amendment to the Constitution which the Indian delegation and the Sri  Lankan government is talking of is a useless as the war affected people  in the North had not asked for any power devolution. “Government should not waste time giving assurances on devolving power  and denying them from time to time and should understand the reality,”  he added.DM</blockquote>

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