Srilanka

Sri Lanka war refugees emerge to uncertain future

Dec 20 (Reuters) RIDITHENNA, Sri Lanka- Some balancing bags on their heads, others with infants clamped to their breasts, all drenched to the bone, hundreds of Tamil refugees emerge from jungle in pouring rain at this transit camp in Sri Lanka's volatile east.
Many have trekked for days, even swum across rivers, to flee a coastal strip of Tamil Tiger-held territory spanning the conflict-battered districts of Trincomalee and Batticaloa to escape the crossfire of a deadly new chapter in the island's two-decade civil war. full story