Kilinochchi district – People for Equality and Relief in Lanka

Sri Lanka: High demand for teachers in former conflict zone

By pearlaction | August 16, 2011 |

[The UN Refugee Agency] As thousands of students begin uninterrupted schooling after a lapse of years, education officials in Sri Lanka’s former northern conflict zone are facing a shortage of teachers. [Full Story]

Hard times in Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north

By pearlaction | July 21, 2011 |

[BBC] It is a land that lost all its people. They retreated with the Tamil Tigers as the civil war swept through Kilinochchi more than two years ago. There are burnt-out husks of houses. [Full Story]

Building a new life after the war in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | July 21, 2011 |

[BBC] Hundreds of thousands of displaced Tamil civilians are returning to their home villages in the north two years after the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. [Full Story]