Tamils risk all to flee Sri Lanka

[oberliner]

Source: Al Jazeera

The United Nations has welcomed the decision by Sri Lanka's government to announce the release of the remaining 130,000 Tamils kept in detention camps for the last six months.

About 250,000 people fled the final bloody phase of the civil war between the government and separatist Tamil Tigers.

They were ultimately housed in government-run camps in the district of Vavuniya.

Hundreds of thousands of Tamils' have been displaced in the fighting and are now living in hastily put together refugee camps that have been largely shut off from the outside world.




Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/11/20091122105630799271.html

[Flaneur]

1. Sri Lankan government has gotten away with murder.

The world cheered when they wiped out the "terrorist" Tamil Tigers, and the world looked away at what has happened to the Tamils.

If only Venezuela or Iran had done this...then it might get some traction.