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July 16, 2009

Report: 1,400 Dying in Sri Lanka Camps Each Month
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In Sri Lanka, the Times of London is reporting an estimated 1,400 people
are dying each week at an internment camp for Tamil refugees. Some
300,000 displaced Tamils are living in the camps following the clashes
that led Tamil Tiger rebels to end their twenty-six-year struggle in
May. Sri Lanka has been accused of trying to prevent refugees from
leaving the camps in the hopes of drastically altering the ethnic
balance of the region.



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