Sri Lanka: Displaced in north long for home

By Charles Haviland-29 March 2014 BBC News, Jaffna district, Sri LankaKonapalam camp in Sri Lanka houses 240 displaced families in cramped conditions

"Would you like to go home?" The men chorus "Yes!" as my question is translated into Tamil. "We're waiting for that date. There's enough land. We'll farm it. We'll fish."

They cannot do that here in the Konapalam camp, the cramped home to 240 displaced families where children play in the dust.

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