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Japan sends relief items for displaced Sri Lankans

by lalith | May 14, 2009 at 10:20 pm

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Japan sends relief items for displaced Sri Lankans
Friday 15th May, 02:16 PM JST

TOKYO —

Japan sent relief items such as tents and sleeping mats to Sri Lanka on Friday to aid a surging number of civilians in the country who have been fleeing from areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels.

A total of 560 tents, 30,000 jerry cans for water supply, 4,000 plastic sheets, 10,000 sleeping mats and 1,000 mosquito nets—worth a total of about 47 million yen—are expected to arrive in Colombo on Saturday, the Cabinet Office said. The items were requested by the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, which has been conducting relief operations in the South Asian country. Tokyo will provide all the available goods stockpiled in its warehouses in Yokohama and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, according to the office.

This is only the start. Many countries have pledge aid by way of relief items to the refugees. Meanwhile, many refugee transit camps are being built so that refugees who are flowing in from the combat area can be housed till they are ready to go to their own homes.

The President of Sri Lanka appointed a 19 member task force which includes top Government servants to ensure that the resettlement of these refugees are completed as soon as possible.

It is also heartening to note that the aid package promised by the Japanese Governmet has been approved in spite of efforts to stop it by various LTTE supporting propagandists including media organizations such as tamilnet,tamilxxx(too many to mention). Sri Lanka will get the aid.

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