Ceylon Today
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22nd September 2019
The Neglected Resettlements of Mannar
Ten years ago, the district of Mannar was an abandoned war-torn area with very little infrastructure, with whatever left standing being claimed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Fast forward to the present, Mannar is no longer the scarcely populated area it used to be, thanks to the resettlement programmes done by the Government. Regardless of these new settlements however, the area’s infrastructure still remains in primitive conditions.