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Powdered milk used in protest.(WORLD BRIEFS)(protesters send milk packets to starving people of Jaffna, Sri Lanka)(Brief article)

From: National Catholic Reporter  |  Date: 11/24/2006

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Wearing black headbands bearing the words "Stop Starvation," Catholic and Methodist ministers and laypeople overran the main post office here to draw attention to what they called a "humanitarian crisis" in Jaffna, a city cut off from the rest of the country by war.

On Nov. 8, about 150 members of Negombo People's Collective for a Political Solution, a church-based group, crowded the Colombo General Post Office, armed not with signs but with 400-gram packets ...

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