Tamils Wait and Worry; Sri Lankan Refugees Fear for Families In Embattled City

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 15, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

In a sparse, dollar-a-night rooming house in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo last week, a dozen Tamil refugees waited anxiously for word from their families stranded in the northern city of Jaffna. Fighting between Tamil rebels and army troops has been escalating near the city for days, but all telephone lines have been cut and virtually all news blacked out by the government.

"I have four daughters back home in Jaffna, and I am dead scared for them," said Arul Seeli, 56, who was interviewed Friday in Colombo. "I sent my other children abroad to save them from all this. I talked to them on ...

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