Friday, May 15, 2009

Sri Lanka: Urgent humanitarian need, says aid group

An interdenominational Christian aid agency has appealed for urgent humanitarian relief for Sri Lanka amid reports of indiscriminate shelling and use of heavy weapons resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties last week.

The Barnabas Fund in its May 13 appeal said a "major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the north-east of Sri Lanka as the country's long civil war intensifies once more." Read more ...

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