Calls for Sri Lankan Government to Release Tamil Refugees

(06 Oct 09 - RV) Religious leaders in Sri Lanka committed to helping Tamil refugees have demanded that President  Mahinda Rajapaksa release the over 200 thousand internally displaced people from refugee camps where they continue to suffer hardship and isolation.
Bishop Thomas Savandaryanagam of the Jaffna Diocese says that the government’s efforts are slow, but priests and sisters are able to offer some hope to refugees living in the camps suffering from a isolation and idleness...