Possible mass grave found in eastern Sri Lanka: police
An injured Sri Lankan soldier Nishan Keerthiratne, lies on his bed at his residence in Iyathigewewa, a company town in Kabathigollawa about 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 7, 2008. With no other job prospects in this impoverished, remote northern village, roughly half the men of fighting age have enlisted in the army, navy, police or other security branches. After a quarter century of civil war between government forces and ethnic Tamil rebels, fighting is so entrenched in this Indian Ocean island it has become a career for tens of thousands seeking a path out of the brutal poverty of rural Sri Lanka.
(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) |
