Posted in Actors, Blogroll, Country, Displacement, Government, Region, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Type of Harm, tagged aid workers, civilians, Displacement, IDP camps, Internally Displaced Persons, LTTE, Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe, President Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan government, Tamil Tigers, Tamils on July 15, 2009 |
Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA)
By ANTHONY DAVID
Colombo (dpa) - Thirteen-year-old Sopika Surendranathan was injured in a December mortar attack during the conflict in northern Sri Lanka but remains in a camp meant for tens of thousands of displaced people.
A lawyer retained on behalf of her family argued successfully before the Supreme Court last week for a medical examination of the girl because she was not getting the required medical attention in the camp.
Sopika’s case is rare, however. Most of the 270,000 people displaced in the final months of the conflict, which ended in May with the government’s defeat of the Tamil separatist rebels, lack the access to lawyers and the money to go to court to fight for their rights. Instead, they go through the rough conditions in the government-run camps. (more…)
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