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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 24 > U.N. leader presses Sri Lanka to help 300,000 in war zone

U.N. leader presses Sri Lanka to help 300,000 in war zone

By John Heilprin / The Bulletin
May 24, 2009

NORTHEAST COAST, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s former war zone is a wasteland, its earth scorched and pocked by craters. Cars and trucks lie overturned near bunkers beside clusters of battered tents.

The government has denied firing heavy weapons into what had been a battlefield....

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