Thousands of returnees are struggling to get by
ended, returnees to remote villages face tough times and uncertain futures, despite governmental and international efforts at reconstruction. "Everything that we had earned in 50 years, we lost in months," Supiah Arumugam, 52, and a father of two, told IRIN. Arumugam returned to his home village of Thunukkai, deep in Mullaitivu District in the island's north and once under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in March 2010. He and his family had fled the violence two years previously. Full Story>>>
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‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields'
Listen to Derryn's powerful editorial and interview with Gordon Weiss, former UN spokesman in Sri Lanka below
HINCH: On a similar Tuesday a few weeks ago Twitter was over-heating, emails were pouring into Canberra by the thousand and radio talkback lines were justifiably red hot.
All of it triggered by a devastating 4 Corners program the night before about cruelty to animals in Indonesian abattoirs.
Last night the ABC aired another documentary. Another even more disturbing 4 Corners report from Britain’s Channel 4 showing the rapes and executions and hospital bombings at the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009. Full Story>>>
