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MR and Ban Ki-Moon
Agony in Menik Farm Camp
BBC
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
The Menik Farm camp in northern Sri Lanka has a distinctly military air for a place which is housing more than 200,000 people displaced by the fighting. There is barbed wire everywhere, and camouflage-clad soldiers who are not at all keen on journalists speaking to those inside the camp.
MR with injured soldiers
Sri Lankan army deaths revealed
BBC
Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Sri Lanka says more than 6,200 security personnel were killed and almost 30,000 wounded in the final three years of the war with the Tamil Tigers. 

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa revealed the figures on state TV - the first such official statement.

It is thought at least 80,000 people have been killed in the 26-year war.

Injured - Amnesty
Appeal to free Sri Lanka doctors
BBC
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

International human rights groups have appealed for the release of three Sri Lankan doctors accused of giving false information to the media.

The doctors had been staffing makeshift hospitals on a shrinking patch of land where the Sri Lankan army isolated Tamil Tiger rebels.

Hillary Clinton and David Miliband
UK, US plea over Sri Lanka crisis
BBC
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
The US and UK have urged Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels to stop fighting "immediately" and allow an evacuation of trapped civilians.
BBC 10 May 2009
Over 378 Civilians Killed in "Safe Zone" Shelling
BBC
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
At least 378 people have been killed by fierce shelling from the Sri Lankan army in the past 24 hours, a health official has told the BBC.

The doctor, working in the northern conflict zone, said 1,122 others had been injured - and more bodies were on beaches and by the sides of roads.