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Our partner, Caritas provided food, water, and other essentials to camp residents in Batticaloa when they were displaced by fighting further north [David Snyder]

Decades of violent conflict have killed more than 100,000 people, left many more injured and homeless, and severely damaged the economy

After more than 25 years of fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the government, the conflict appears to have ended in a victory for the government forces in May 2009.

The scars of civil war run deep, and law and order is yet to be completely restored. Sri Lankans are still “disappearing” and violence often goes unpunished.

The country’s official classification as lower middle income masks huge inequalities. Half the population live below the poverty line, and there has been a fall in state support for education, health, and other social services.

We are supporting those affected by the recently-ended war through our Sri Lanka Crisis Appeal . Our partner Caritas Sri Lanka is providing emergency support for displaced civilians to help them return home and rebuild their lives.

Our partners are also promoting lasting solutions to the underlying problems that fuelled the conflict.

Tamil women and girls hold plastic cups in a temporary refugee camp in Vavuniya, northern Sri Lanka [REUTERS/Nir Elias courtesy of www.alertnet.org]

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Young Tamil boys stand with other civilians behind a barbed-wire fence in the Menikfam Vanni refugee camp located near the town of Chettekulam in northern Sri Lanka April 29, 2009 [REUTERS/Stringer, courtesy alertnet.org]

Sri Lanka: Bishops say all must be allowed home

Bishop John Rawsthorne of Sheffield and Bishop John Arnold of Westminster call for Tamils displaced by civil war to be allowed to return home after visiting camps in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Forced to abandon a life's work

Before the fighting came, elderly farmer Ganeshan says his life was “fairly comfortable”, happily working his 14-acre plot daily to feed his family

REUTERS/David Gray courtesy of www.alertnet.org

Sri Lanka: Partners seriously injured in shelling

Our partners working in the Vanni conflict zone in Sri Lanka have been severely wounded during the latest spate of shelling

Injured civilians in a make-shift hospital in a photograph released by the Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group 'Mercy Mission to Vanni' on April 20, 2009 [REUTERS/Mercy Mission to Vanni, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

Sri Lanka: "Final assault" is no answer

We are gravely concerned about the fate of an estimated 100,000 civilians as Sri Lanka's government announces plans for a "final assault" in the Vanni region, following the expiry of a deadline for Tamil Tigers to surrender

Published on 30/01/2006, last updated on 26/01/2010

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