Sri Lanka to allow displaced civilians to return home

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Updated November 25, 2009 15:53:53

Sri Lanka has promised to free nearly 140,000 Tamil civilians being held in detention camps by December the first, and to close the controversial camps down altogether by the end of January.

Presenter: Corinne Podger
Speaker: Gordon Weiss, United Nations spokesman Colombo

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