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Scores of Sri Lankan refugees living in various camps in Virudhunagar district on Monday submitted separate petitions seeking Indian citizenship to Collector A. Sivagnanam.Stating that they had lived most pat of their life in India, the refugees said they did not have the economic wherewithal to set up their life and livelihood on returning to the island nation.Over 3,200 refugees, who fled their war-torn nation in 1990s, live in seven refugee camps in the district.On Monday, they came en masse to the Collectorate with a petition containing the single demand after Friday’s Madras High Court order permitting 65 Tamils from Sri Lanka to submit fresh application for citizenship to the the Collector concerned.via: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/sri-lankan-refugees-seek-indian-citizenship/article28128449.ece?fbclid=IwAR23T6PWaZyz_i9pq5eRPK0ro0vQIo1M-8D7JjFk__PJhu4eBoFIegrg7oQ