Many Sri Lanka War Refugees Languish in Camps -- New York Times
CHEDDIKULAM, Sri Lanka — When the piercing whistle and sharp thuds of artillery shells grew faint, S. Theventhran dashed to safety. After days of cowering in a narrow, open trench on a strip of beach in the northeastern corner of Sri Lanka, he was cheered by the sight of Sri Lankan Army soldiers helping wounded and terrified survivors of the last stand of the Tamil Tiger rebels, who had held nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians hostage.
More than two months later, Mr. Theventhran, a 56-year-old Tamil civil servant, finds himself once again a captive, this time of the people who freed him from the Tigers’ grip.
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A Tamil girl at a refugee camp in the northern district of Vavuniya. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images)More News On Sri Lanka
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'Hundreds dying' in Sri Lanka camp -- Al AJzeera
1,400 weekly deaths in Sri Lankan refugee camps: report -- The Hindu
Sri Lankan doctors recant reports of civilian deaths -- Christian Science Monitor
Scepticism as Sri Lankan doctors backtrack over mass deaths by army shelling -- Times Online
Sri Lankan doctors paraded to recant over 'false' casualty figures -- The Guardian
My Comment: 200 people dying in one camp .... that figure (if true) is astounding. Because some of these camps are closed off to the international community .... it makes one realize (with these death stats) that some terrible things must be happening, and we can only speculate on it.
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