They were forced to flee after the racial riots of April 1985, and have been provisionally sheltered in village school, where they are provided by the district authorities and NGOs with the most immediate relief assitance, and - 60 families of stateless Tamils from the South moved to Amathipuram in the district of Kilinochchi in the North of Sri Lanka, who undertook the exodus to the North after ethnic violence in 1983, and are temporarily settled in primitive thatched houses.
Ils ont ete contraints de fuir apres les emeutes raciales d'avril 1985 et sont loges provisoirement
dans des ecoles de village ou ils recoiventune aide d'urgence des autorites du district et des ONG; - 60 familles de Tamouls apatrides venant
du Sud qui ont fui vers Amathipuram dans le distric
t de Kilinochchi au Nord du Sri-Lanka a la suite des violences ethniques de 1983; elles sont logees temporairement dans des maisons primitiv
...[+++]es a toit de chaume.