'Lankan building permanent camps for Tamil refugees'

Despite promising to resettle 80 percent of Tamil refugees by the end of this year, the Sri Lankan Government has reportedly started building permanent camps for most of the 300,000 refugees, who are being held there since Tamil Tigers' defeat in May.
The Times quoted aid workers, as saying that permanent buildings are being erected at the Manik Farm site where the UN says that 230,000 of the refugees are kept.
The aid workers were able to do humanitarian work in four of six zones at Manik Farm but were barred from two others, including the mysteriously named Zone Zero.
"We're not allowed to work in these areas. But you can see from the outside proper brick-walled buildings going up," said Rajinda Jayasinghe, the head of Relief International in Sri Lanka.
The Government originally proposed holding the Tamil refugees in "welfare villages" for up to three years to check that they were not Tigers, and to clear their villages of mines.