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 Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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| December HR Release |
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Why doesn’t someone come and give us poison and kill us all – Vaharai peopleThe people in Vaharai region are yelling out for help. They are pleading with the international community to stop the Sri Lankan military attacks on them. Many of these people have displaced several times over the last six months. The food situation, they say, is desperate and people are in fact begging for food. Below are some voices from people in Vaharai.Annaladchmi mother of five children: We lived in Kaddaiparichchan. We displaced from there to Paddalipuram due to Sri Lankan military artillery firing. Then the military started firing into Paddalipuram as well and we ran again to Veruhal Muhaththuvaram and then again to Kallady and yet again to Kathiraveli. They fire artillery from sea and land and drop bombs from air. We have been running like this since April.
People are dying of illness. There is no medicine here. The military is not allowing even medicine to be brought here. We have no food at all. Please come and see our conditions. They have been shelling us continuously for 10 days. We cannot even sleep in peace. Why doesn’t someone come and give us poison and kill us all. That will be better than this, seeing mothers feeding just boiled water to babies crying of hunger because there is no milk powder or milk to feed six months old babies.
Anthony Robert father of two children: I am from Pannichchankerni. There were 360 families living there. I have my own vegetable plot there. When the military started shelling everyone left Pannichchankerni. I was the last one to leave. We do not see even a single vehicle here. We cannot even take the sick to hospital. There is nothing here to eat. Not even salt. Even nature is against these people. It has been raining and there is no roof over many people. The hospital wards are destroyed by the shelling and bombing. There are no wards for the patients. Italy Red Cross is running a medical clinic. But the Sri Lankan military is preventing them from bringing medicine. George Gregg father of two: I lost one of my children to the tsunami. Like all Vaharai residents we were living in the tsunami temporary shelter. The military is firing artillery shells and Multi-Barrel rockets. The shells they are firing are power full. There is no safety even in the bunkers. You must come and see the conditions here. Persistent firing, no transport. no food, no medicine. What are we to do?
Yesterday, UN delegation came here. But the military did not let him stay long enough to learn about the situation in detail. SLMM came only three times. We begged them to stay because we feel safer. But they could not, the military did not give them permission to stay longer. The situation is the same all along the Vaharai area. Kathiraveli, Veruhal, Vaharai all along it is the same. Shelling. No food. No transport. Please do something about this.
10 November 2006
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