Sri Lanka: Vanni Emergency OCHA Situation Report No. 11

- On 12 May, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, expressed her concerns at the deteriorating crisis and its serious toll on children.

- The ICRC confirmed in a press release that a staff member and his mother were killed by shrapnel today in the conflict zone. A Caritas Australia staff member was killed in a shell attack in the conflict zone on 8 May.

- Cases of chicken pox in Vavuniya have reached a cumulative total of 9,842 cases as of 11 May.

- On 12 May, CDMA mobile phones were provided to 8 out of 12 IDP sites in Jaffna. Banking and postal facilities have been made available in all 12 IDP sites in this district. Read more and download report

Sri Lanka: Vanni Emergency OCHA Situation Report No. 2

This situation report covers the period from 27 to 28 April 2009. The next report will be issued on or around 29 April.

I. Highlights

- 30 metric tons of food were ferried yesterday by the ICRC to the conflict zone.

- ICRC was planning to evacuate 481 people from the conflict zone today and additional evacuations are planned for Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 April. Since February, ICRC has evacuated by ferry 10,000 civilians from the Vanni, 50% of whom were injured.

- The Competent Authority (CA), appointed by the Government to coordinate all relief efforts on behalf displaced civilians, has announced that the authorities will not send any more IDPs to Menik Farm zone 2 for the next ten days. Read more ...