Sunday, May 24, 2009

200,000 Tamil civilians imprisoned in Sri Lanka's Manik Farm "concentration" camp...

“We are in an open jail,” Kumar whispers, his skinny shoulders shaking as he looks around to check who is watching “Help us, we want to be free.” 

He is one of about 200,000 Tamil civilians being held against their will behind the razor-wire coils that surround Manik Farm, the largest displacement camp in Sri Lanka — one of the largest in the world.

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Father Amalraj, a Catholic priest, was shocked by what he found on his arrival with his parishioners on a military bus last Monday. 

“I read in a book on the Second World War about concentration camps,” he says. “I feel we are experiencing that now. The concentration camps of the Second World War are here in Sri Lanka.” Full story...

See also:

  1. Why did the West abandon the Tamils in Sri Lanka?
  2. Sri Lanka authorities on revenge rampage in Tamil refugee camps...
  3. Tamil children being abducted from refugee camps in Sri Lanka...
  4. War is over in Sri Lanka. And now?

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