Tamils Trickling Out of Concentration Camps
"Sri Lanka allows 127,000 Tamil refugees to leave camps" by Associated Press | December 2, 2009
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka gave permission yesterday to nearly 127,000 Tamil refugees to leave squalid and overrun government camps where they have been detained since the country’s civil war ended six months ago, an official said.
Some 300,000 war refugees were forced into the camps after fleeing the war zone in the final months of the government’s decades-long fight with the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended in May. The ethnic-minority Tamils were held against their will, surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers.
The IMAGERY, readers.
I thought we were past this.
The government maintained that the Tamils had to be screened for rebel ties and that land mines had to be removed from their villages before they could return. Rights groups have called the detention an illegal form of collective punishment....
You are not alone, Palestine.
