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Child injured in fighting

Sri Lanka: food and fuel shortages hit north after renewed fighting, UNICEF reports

27 October 2006
The 600,000 inhabitants of Sri Lanka’s Jaffna Peninsula, already buffeted by decades of conflict, are now facing food and fuel shortages as a result of a recent upsurge in fighting between Tamil separatists and Government forces, with many businesses closed due to security concerns, according to the latest update from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

UN relief officials say they need better access in war-torn areas in Sri Lanka

18 October 2006
While supporting the Sri Lankan government’s relief efforts for some 204,000 people currently displaced in the north and east, who have fled their homes as a result of the escalating violence, the United Nations’ top emergency relief official said today there are serious concerns about lack of access to some areas, especially in the Tamil north.

Secretary-General deplores ‘appalling’ suicide bombing in Sri Lanka

16 October 2006
Warning against a renewed civil war in Sri Lanka between the Government and Tamil separatists after the latest “appalling” suicide bombing of a convoy of military buses, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the sides to return to the negotiation table.
Children in a camp on Sri Lanka’s east coast

UN children’s agency helps 45,000 Sri Lankans uprooted by violence

13 October 2006
United Nations agencies are helping the Sri Lankan Government bring in supplies and provisions for 45,000 people who fled south along the island’s east coast, often with nothing more than the clothes on their backs, since fighting intensified between Tamil separatist rebels and government forces in early August.