The graves of Tamil Tiger fighters in their regimented lines contrast to the shallow and scattered graves of refugees that were also photographed.From Times Online:
From the dusty helicopter window the ground looked like any number of other tropical war zones; the bombed-out buildings, the charred palm trees, the burnt-out abandoned vehicle.
Then there was the glint of the green lagoon and suddenly I was looking at the same unmistakable terrain — the inlets of water, the long, sandy spits that I had been gazing at for weeks on a map in London as I tried to imagine what it meant to be inside the no-fire zone.
It was four years since I had been to Sri Lanka and everything had changed. The shaky ceasefire, which was collapsing even then, had imploded with an all-out military offensive to drive out the Tamil Tigers.
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My Comment: I can only imagine the hell that these people were going through. A full accounting of what happened will be done one day .... and I am sure that it is not going to be pretty.
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