UNHCR aide reaches Sri Lanka
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, April 2009 - On 27 April 2009, UNTV reports that a UNHCR emergency airlift carrying humanitarian aide for tens of thousands arrives in Colombo. The government said that large numbers of people are on the move and that 150,000 are displaced in Sri Lanka.
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