[Toronto Star]

Where is Mohideen? His wife Fatima wonders this every day as she wakes at 5 a.m. to say her morning prayers and get her two sons ready for school. Since November, Fatima, who lives in a corrugated tin-roof home in one of the Sri Lankan capital’s Tamil neighbourhoods, has been praying to Allah for her husband’s safe return. At 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 11, four men wielding guns and flashing badges barged into Fatima’s home, demanding Mohideen accompany them to the police station for two hours to be questioned.

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[Washington Post Foreign Service]

“For us, the war in Sri Lanka is like a tsunami that won’t end,” whispered Sara Waeathi, a wiry ethnic Tamil who used to fish and harvest honey in her original village in the country’s restive north. Today, in this camp near the eastern coastal city of Batticaloa, she and her family depend on international food handouts. “The fighting keeps coming. Only God knows what will happen to us. We are scared.”

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