Sri Lanka blocks UN aid to thousands of Tamil refugees; this is victory?

The Sri Lankan Government has blocked access to aid workers trying to help the nearly 300,000 civilians displaced by the army’s victory over the Tamil Tigers, raising the prospect of a humanitarian catastrophe. 

In the capital, Colombo, President Rajapakse announced the “complete defeat” of the rebels yesterday as state television showed pictures of what was said to be the corpse of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers’ leader. Mr Rajapakse vowed in an address to the nation to press ahead with a “homegrown political solution” to end ethnic divisions between the majority Sinhalese population and minority Tamils. More...

See also:

1. War is over in Sri Lanka. And now?
2. Children victims of Sri Lanka bloodbath (graphic)
3. Sri Lanka and the Tamil genocide...