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 ...