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Desperate and unacceptable situation for trapped population in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | February 27, 2009 |

[Doctors Without Borders] Many are injured, some with infected wounds that are weeks old. As a result, many people have been maimed for life. Even those who have made it to Vavuniya have no freedom of movement, no access to information, and no options to look for lost family members. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is…

Trapped Sri Lankans ‘dying in makeshift hospital’

By pearlaction | February 15, 2009 |

[The Observer] Doctors say wounded Sri Lankan civilians are dying for want of proper medical treatment as they lie trapped in a makeshift hospital in the last rebel-held pocket in the north-east of the island. This weekend, hundreds of injured civilians poured in to the improvised medical facility in Putumattalan village, which has been repeatedly…