Children and students are among the detained IDPs in Sri Lanka

Lanka Teachers' Association (LTA) told BBC Sandeshaya that students among the internally displaced people (IDP) have the same right to get a proper education before sitting for national examinations.

Joseph Stalin, president of the LTA, said the government should immediately release students eligible to sit the GCE (O/L) exams in December.

"Students in the camps are writing for the same question papers as others and they do have the same right to be properly taught before the exams," he said.

He stressed that these children should be sent to schools outside the camps until their release.

Nearly 240,000 Tamil IDPs are detained in several camps run by the government in Vavuniya district.

At least 30,000 of them are estimated to be children but not clear how many of those children are school students.