Displaced War Victims in Sri Lanka Still Suffering

Mission News Network reports that thousands of refugees remain trapped and displaced since Sri Lanka's civil war ended in May. According to one worker with Partners International, 280,000 people are living in camps in northern Sri Lanka. "[P]eople are detained. They don't have freedom of movement; they can't go out. And they are like prisoners." Thousands of these refugees are children or orphans wandering in the camps. Sri Lanka continues to holds thousands of ethnicsTamils in military-run camps as the government remains wary of the group, who found sometimes-friends with the rebel Tamil Tiger fighters. The rebels ultimately used thousands of civilians as human shields and deterrents. Partners International says the ministry is serving food to 10,500 people, and trying to support indigenous pastors already within the camps.