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Story Publication logo August 29, 2008

Sri Lanka in Pictures

Country:

Sri lanka

Author:

Jason Motlagh
Grantee

English

Sri Lanka is a byword for beauty and tragedy. Even the wholesale devastation of the Asian tsunami...

Jason Motlagh
Grantee

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An empty can of palm oil provided by the United Nations at a camp for displaced people, Eastern Province.

Roadside camp for people displaced by fighting, Muthur district, Eastern Province.

Sri Lanka army soldier on patrol, Trincomalee, Eastern Province.

Sri Lankan army soldier surveys street, Trincomalee, Eastern Province, a former LTTE stronghold.

Displaced Tamil boy at camp, Eastern Province.

Tamil women waiting for aid distribution at a roadside camp, Eastern Province.

Ration card given to camp residents, Eastern Province.

This elderly man was forced from his home two years ago and is desperate to return, Eastern Province.

These children have lived in a camp for the past two years, where their father died of a fever several months ago, Eastern Province.

Father Henry Miller, a Jesuit missionary and activist who has lived in Batticaloa for more than 60 years, Eastern Province.

This Tamil man, a fisherman, lives in a seaside idp camp where he is forbidden fish since the government declared the area a high security zone, near Batticaloa, Eastern Province.

Tattered election poster of Pillayan, Muthur district, Eastern Province.

Opening of a new bus station sponsored by the US government to bring ethnic Tamils and Sinhalese together, Batticaloa, Eastern Province.

Pillayan, a former child soldier turned LTTE leader who broke from the group two years ago and this spring became chief minister of the Eastern Province, Batticaloa.