Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they"ve been detained since the country"s civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday, according to (...)
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited a displacement camp packed with tens of thousands of Tamil civilians in northern Sri Lanka as he
appealed Saturday to the triumphant government to «heal
the wounds» after three decades of civil war.
The (...)