Sri Lanka: Catholic commission in Vanni highlights IPDs plight

TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 00:19 GMT] Amid pouring rain and thundering blasts of artillery and mortar shells, more than 170,000 Internally Displaced Persons in Vanni are facing a great human tragedy, which is calculatedly concealed from the world outside, said Rev. Fr. James Pathinathan, the president of the Vanni branch of the Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaffna,... [read full story]