TRO assists IDPs in Muttur east, Eachchilampathu division, Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 August 2006, 17:29 GMT]
Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), only non-governmental organization in the district has been engaged in providing cooked meals, dry rations, milk food and other related humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of Tamil people in the LTTE held villages in Muthur east, Eachchilampathu divisions who have been displaced due to artillery and aerial attack by the Sri Lankan armed forces and sheltered in school and public buildings since April this year. TRO has been distributing food materials with available stock in LTTE held areas amid continuing artillery fire by the Sri Lanka armed forces and destroyed road network and bridges, sources said.

TRO has also been supplying food and other relief materials to displaced people from Muthur town and other Tamil villages in the Muthur division in recent outbreak of fighting between the SLA and LTTE and now sheltered in Trincomalee, Thampalakamam and Kinniya in school buildings , sources said.

TRO Trincomalee district secretariat distributed relief emergency aid to Muthur Muslim displaced sheltered in Trincomalee Zahira College and to Tamil refugees in Saint Punithavalanar Vidiyalyam.