Srilanka

Fears for refugees in Sri Lanka fighting

Dec 20 (Telegraph) Sitting in her hospital bed, nursing an eight-month-old baby with a deep shrapnel wound in his left leg, the young Tamil woman is the forgotten face of Sri Lanka's increasingly violent ethnic war. Vijaya, 19, was just setting up her cooking pots outside her house in the town of Vakarai on Sri Lanka's east coast when a shell landed in the garden next door, killing three of her neighbour's children and injuring her own son, Vidushan. full story