A View from Behind the Barbed Wire

A Canadian UNHCR worker shares her experiences and opinions about the plight of internally displaced Tamils in northern Sri Lanka

By Jeff Davis

Published August 12, 2009

During the final months of Sri Lanka's civil war, the island nation's government barred the media and other observers from entering the war zone. As a result, first-hand accounts of the conditions facing the hundreds of thousands of Tamils forced to flee their homes, and later interned in internally displaced peoples (IDP) camps, were practically non-existent.

But on the ground during the final weeks...

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