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An elderly Tamil woman sits in front of
a row of tents in a refugee camp located
on the outskirts of the town of Vavuniya
in northern Sri Lanka May 8, 2009. The
International Committee of the Red Cross
evacuated 495 sick and wounded people
and their helpers by ferry from a
northeastern Sri Lanka war zone on
Thursday, its first medical evacuation
in a week due to heavy fighting. Dozens
of people requiring treatment still need
evacuation from the tiny coastal area
where thousands of civilians remain
trapped, the neutral humanitarian agency
said. Picture taken May 8, 2009.
REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA CONFLICT
MILITARY POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
Tamil civilians stand in line to receive
food and supplies in a refugee camp
located on the outskirts of the town of
Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka May 6,
2009. Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it had
invited U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-
Moon to visit camps where 200,000 people
are being held after fleeing the closing
battles of the island nation's war
against Tamil Tiger separatists. The
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
meanwhile urged the United Nations to
escort a ship full of aid, organised by
sympathisers in the Tamil diaspora in
Britain, into the war zone to stave off
what it said was looming starvation.
Picture taken May 6, 2009. REUTERS/
Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT
POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA CONFLICT MILITARY HEALTH POLITICS)
A Tamil civilian lies on the ground near
an entrance to the main hospital in the
town of Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka
May 5, 2009. The Sri Lankan military
denied a report on Saturday by a pro-
rebel website of killing 64 people by
shelling a makeshift hospital inside the
last scrap of land held by the the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),
saying the rebels may have set off
explosions near the hospital. Sri Lanka
has disregarded heavy Western pressure
to call a truce to protect tens of
thousands of civilians trapped by the
LTTE in the war zone, a 5-square km (2-
sq mile) strip of coast. REUTERS/
Stringer (SRI LANKA CONFLICT MILITARY
HEALTH POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
A woman with a bandaged head stands in
line with other Tamil civilians in a
refugee camp located on the outskirts of
the town of Vavuniya in northern Sri
Lanka May 4, 2009. The Sri Lankan
military denied a report on Saturday by
a pro-rebel website of killing 64 people
by shelling a makeshift hospital inside
the last scrap of land held by the the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),
saying the rebels may have set off
explosions near the hospital. Sri Lanka
has disregarded heavy Western pressure
to call a truce to protect tens of
thousands of civilians trapped by the
LTTE in the war zone, a 5-square km (2-
sq mile) strip of coast. REUTERS/
Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT
POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Tamil children stand in line next to an
armed Sri Lankan policeman in the
Menikfam Vanni refugee camp located near
the town of Chettekulam in northern Sri
Lanka May 3, 2009. A pro-rebel website
accused Sri Lanka's military of killing
64 people Saturday by shelling a
makeshift hospital inside the last scrap
of land held by the Tamil Tiger
guerrillas. The military denied the
report. It said the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) may have set off
explosions near the hospital. Sri Lanka
has disregarded heavy Western pressure
to call a truce to protect tens of
thousands of civilians trapped by the
LTTE in the war zone, a 5-square km (2-
sq mile) strip of coast. REUTERS/
Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT
POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
Tamil men who said they are aged more
than 100 years old sit on their beds at
a temporary shelter in the Samanagkulam
school located on the outskirts of the
town of Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka
May 11, 2009. The United Nations said a
weekend attack in Sri Lanka that killed
hundreds was the bloodbath it had feared,
while the Tamil Tigers and government
traded blame ahead of U.N. Security
Council talks over the war. In the
latest reported assault on civilians
trapped in the war zone, at least
hundreds of people were reported killed
on Sunday in an artillery barrage that
struck the less than 5 square km (2
square miles) the separatist rebels
control. REUTERS/Stringer (SRI
LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
A young Tamil boy stands behind a barbed-
wire fence in the Menikfam Vanni refugee
camp located near the town of
Chettekulam in northern Sri Lanka May 1,
2009. U.N. Security Council members see
no point withholding an IMF loan or
taking other steps to punish Sri Lanka,
the council's president said, the same
day Sri Lanka's president rejected
international calls for a ceasefire with
rebels. Colombo has been under fresh
pressure this week, from the European
Union among others, to allow a truce so
civilians trapped in the tiny area the
Tamil Tigers still hold can escape.
REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY
CONFLICT POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS SOCIETY)
A Tamil girl is held by her mother near
their temporary shelter at a refugee
camp located on the outskirts of
Vavuniya town in northern Sri Lanka May
9, 2009. The cornered Tamil Tigers on
Sunday accused Sri Lanka of killing
hundreds in an artillery barrage, which
the military said the guerrillas had
fired off themselves to win sympathy for
a truce to stave off defeat. The
reported attack is the latest in a
series of accusations and counter-
accusations about who is harming
civilians, tens of thousands of whom are
trapped inside the less than 5 square km
(2 sq miles) of battlefield left in Asia'
s longest modern war. Picture taken May
9, 2009.
REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA
MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS SOCIETY)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
Tamil civilians sit in front of a row of
tents in a refugee camp located on the
outskirts of the town of Vavuniya in
northern Sri Lanka May 9, 2009. The
International Committee of the Red Cross
evacuated 495 sick and wounded people
and their helpers by ferry from a
northeastern Sri Lanka war zone on
Thursday, its first medical evacuation
in a week due to heavy fighting. Dozens
of people requiring treatment still need
evacuation from the tiny coastal area
where thousands of civilians remain
trapped, the neutral humanitarian agency
said. Picture taken May 9, 2009.
REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY
CONFLICT POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA)
A young Tamil girl sits with other
civilians at a refugee camp located on
the outskirts of the town of Vavuniya in
northern Sri Lanka May 9, 2009. The
International Committee of the Red Cross
evacuated 495 sick and wounded people
and their helpers by ferry from a
northeastern Sri Lanka war zone on
Thursday, its first medical evacuation
in a week due to heavy fighting. Dozens
of people requiring treatment still need
evacuation from the tiny coastal area
where thousands of civilians remain
trapped, the neutral humanitarian agency
said. Picture taken May 9, 2009.
REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Tamil civilians stand in line to receive
food and supplies in a refugee camp
located on the outskirts of the town of
Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka May 8,
2009. The International Committee of the
Red Cross evacuated 495 sick and wounded
people and their helpers by ferry from a
northeastern Sri Lanka war zone on
Thursday, its first medical evacuation
in a week due to heavy fighting. Dozens
of people requiring treatment still need
evacuation from the tiny coastal area
where thousands of civilians remain
trapped, the neutral humanitarian agency
said. Picture taken May 8, 2009.
REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY
CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA CONFLICT MILITARY HEALTH POLITICS)
Injured Tamil civilians are seen in a
ward at the main hospital in the town of
Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka May 8,
2009. The International Committee of the
Red Cross evacuated 495 sick and wounded
people and their helpers by ferry from a
northeastern Sri Lanka war zone on
Thursday, its first medical evacuation
in a week due to heavy fighting. Dozens
of people requiring treatment still need
evacuation from the tiny coastal area
where thousands of civilians remain
trapped, the neutral humanitarian agency
said. REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA
CONFLICT MILITARY HEALTH POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA CONFLICT MILITARY HEALTH POLITICS)
A Tamil woman who lost part of her leg
lies on a bed along with other injured
Tamil civilians in a ward at the main
hospital in the town of Vavuniya in
northern Sri Lanka May 8, 2009. The
International Committee of the Red Cross
evacuated 495 sick and wounded people
and their helpers by ferry from a
northeastern Sri Lanka war zone on
Thursday, its first medical evacuation
in a week due to heavy fighting. Dozens
of people requiring treatment still need
evacuation from the tiny coastal area
where thousands of civilians remain
trapped, the neutral humanitarian agency
said. REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA
CONFLICT MILITARY HEALTH POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Tamil civilians stand next to their huts
in a refugee camp located on the
outskirts of the town of Vavuniya in
northern Sri Lanka May 6, 2009. Sri
Lanka said on Wednesday it had invited U.
N Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to visit
camps where 200,000 people are being
held after fleeing the closing battles
of the island nation's war against Tamil
Tiger separatists. The Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) meanwhile urged
the United Nations to escort a ship full
of aid, organised by sympathisers in the
Tamil diaspora in Britain, into the war
zone to stave off what it said was
looming starvation. Picture taken May 6,
2009. REUTERS/Stringer (SRI
LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS IMAGES
OF THE DAY)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA CONFLICT MILITARY HEALTH POLITICS)
A Tamil woman, with a wooden prosthetic
leg, lies on the ground with her young
baby near an entrance to the main
hospital in the town of Vavuniya in
northern Sri Lanka May 5, 2009. The Sri
Lankan military denied a report on
Saturday by a pro-rebel website of
killing 64 people by shelling a
makeshift hospital inside the last scrap
of land held by the the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), saying the
rebels may have set off explosions near
the hospital. Sri Lanka has disregarded
heavy Western pressure to call a truce
to protect tens of thousands of
civilians trapped by the LTTE in the war
zone, a 5-square km (2-sq mile) strip of
coast. REUTERS/Stringer (SRI
LANKA CONFLICT MILITARY HEALTH POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
A man rests on a mat as other Tamil
civilians and their children sit near
their belongings in a refugee camp
located on the outskirts of the town of
Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka May 4,
2009. The Sri Lankan military denied a
report on Saturday by a pro-rebel
website of killing 64 people by shelling
a makeshift hospital inside the last
scrap of land held by the the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), saying the
rebels may have set off explosions near
the hospital. Sri Lanka has disregarded
heavy Western pressure to call a truce
to protect tens of thousands of
civilians trapped by the LTTE in the war
zone, a 5-square km (2-sq mile) strip of
coast. REUTERS/Stringer (SRI
LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
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REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY CONFLICT POLITICS)
Tamil civilians sit outside their
temporary huts in the Menikfam Vanni
refugee camp located near the town of
Chettekulam in northern Sri Lanka May 1,
2009. U.N. Security Council members see
no point withholding an IMF loan or
taking other steps to punish Sri Lanka,
the council's president said, the same
day Sri Lanka's president rejected
international calls for a ceasefire with
rebels. Colombo has been under fresh
pressure this week, from the European
Union among others, to allow a truce so
civilians trapped in the tiny area the
Tamil Tigers still hold can escape.
REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA MILITARY
CONFLICT POLITICS)
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