Sri Lankan Army Claims Rebel Casualties

(9 Nov '06 - RV) Sri Lanka's Army said today that it had sunk 22 Tamil Tiger rebel boats in the north of the country. The claim came a day after the Army bombed a camp for internally displaced people in the east, later claiming the rebels were using people as human shields. We spoke to the regional director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in South Asia, Father P S Amalraj, about the attack on the camp and the difficulties of helping people across the country as a whole…