COLOMBO, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) — The Sri Lankan government said Wednesday that it has completely resettled the war displaced civilians housed in the welfare camps in the Eastern Province.

The Department of Government Information said in a statement that as the final stage 91 families of the Kokuvil welfare village were resettled in Trincomalee district on Tuesday.

There were 112 camps for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in the Eastern Province and over 35,000 families had been living in them following the escalation of conflict between the government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in 2006.

The statement said that all the families in these camps are now leading normal lives in their original places of living.

Around 250,000 IDPs displaced by the final battles between the troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are still being housed in several welfare villages in the north.

The government is under pressure to resettle most of them to their original homes within another two months as promised by the government.

The LTTE, which had been fighting for more than two decades to carve out an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east, was defeated by the troops in May.

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