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UN agencies begin aiding Sri Lankans who fled recent fighting
[ UN ] [ 00:30 GMT, May. 2, 2006 ]
United Nations agencies have started delivering food, safe water and other basic needs to the over 10,000 Sri Lankans displaced by recent clashes between the Government and the separatist Tamil rebels, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. A joint UN assessment team had gone to the Trincomalee district of northern Sri Lanka on Friday following clashes with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and military air strikes last week. The team reported that on April 21, some 8,500 people were displaced as a result of explosive attacks in the town of Muttur, according to a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The Big Question: Is Sri Lanka once again on the brink of full-scale civil war?
[ Independent ] [ 00:31 GMT, May. 2, 2006 ]
Why is there so much concern about Sri Lanka? Barely recovered from the 2004 tsunami, Sri Lanka appears to be sliding inexorably back towards civil war. There has been a drastic increase in violence between government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels since December, culminating in government air strikes on Tiger positions just outside Trincomalee . The air strikes came after the attempted assassination of the Sri Lankan army chief by a suspected Tiger suicide bomber. More than 100 people have died in the last two weeks alone. How serious is the threat of war? Very. At least 64,000 people are believed to have died in the two-decade civil war on Sri Lanka, making it one of the bloodiest in the world.
[ UN ] [ 00:30 GMT, May. 2, 2006 ]
United Nations agencies have started delivering food, safe water and other basic needs to the over 10,000 Sri Lankans displaced by recent clashes between the Government and the separatist Tamil rebels, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. A joint UN assessment team had gone to the Trincomalee district of northern Sri Lanka on Friday following clashes with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and military air strikes last week. The team reported that on April 21, some 8,500 people were displaced as a result of explosive attacks in the town of Muttur, according to a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The Big Question: Is Sri Lanka once again on the brink of full-scale civil war?
[ Independent ] [ 00:31 GMT, May. 2, 2006 ]
Why is there so much concern about Sri Lanka? Barely recovered from the 2004 tsunami, Sri Lanka appears to be sliding inexorably back towards civil war. There has been a drastic increase in violence between government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels since December, culminating in government air strikes on Tiger positions just outside Trincomalee . The air strikes came after the attempted assassination of the Sri Lankan army chief by a suspected Tiger suicide bomber. More than 100 people have died in the last two weeks alone. How serious is the threat of war? Very. At least 64,000 people are believed to have died in the two-decade civil war on Sri Lanka, making it one of the bloodiest in the world.