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SRI LANKA: Return to Ruin

In January 2008, the war in Sri Lanka had re-ignited, in earnest, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. Thousands of tsunami survivors were homeless again, this time due to the shelling from the renewed military offensive.

The war continued to take its toll. Rural clinics were looted and gutted; doctors were afraid to come to work, and patients struggled to get needed health care. Abduction, and a grim future as a child soldier, were the greatest threats to young girls and boys. For girls in their early teens, there was a choice, and many took it: To marry and start having children.