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Aerial view of former battlefront in Vavuniya
23 May 2009
Source: Reuters
 
An aerial view of the former battlefront is seen from the helicopter carrying U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during his visit, which also included a visit to the refugee camp called Manik Farm, on the outskirts of the northern Sri Lankan town of Vavuniya May 23, 2009. Ban toured Sri Lanka's largest war refugee camp named Manik Farm, home to 220,000 refugees, in the north of the country on Saturday during a trip to press for wider humanitarian access and political reconciliation, and is the highest-level international visit Sri Lanka since the government declared victory on Monday over the Tamil Tiger rebels in a 25-year war. REUTERS/Louis Charbonneau (SRI LANKA CONFLICT MILITARY POLITICS SOCIETY)
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Internally displaced boys, who fled a military offensive in the Swat valley region, are silhouetted at a playground in the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Yar Hussain camp in ...




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