Sri Lanka refugee children at great risk ofabductions and abuse

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Updated May 22, 2009 11:57:22

Sri Lanka says it hopes to resettle most of the 280,000 civilians displaced by the civil war, within six months.

The announcement follows a meeting between President Mahinda Rajapakse and the Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and his colleague, the National Security Advisor M.K. Narayan in Colombo. A UN special envoy, Vijay Nambiar, has also visited displacement camps in the island's north amid warnings that the refugee children were at great risk from abductions and other abuse.

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