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Sri Lanka – Widows – Forgotten Victims of War
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2015/04/sri-lanka-widows-war-150421161203533.html
Webstite Includes Detailed Documentary Video of Sri Lanka War Widows.
SRI LANKA IS HOME TO SOME 90,000 CIVIL WAR WIDOWS.
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23 April
2015 - When a barrage of artillery slammed into Sivalingam Maheswary's town in
Sri Lanka's northeast, her husband and son were among those killed. Sivalingam
was one of the few survivors, but she lost her right arm in the shelling on the
frontline of the country's civil war.
The guns have since fallen silent but 90,000 widows like
Sivalingam are now struggling to earn enough to feed themselves and their
children. The number of widows is almost as high as the death toll caused by
the decades-long war.
The
website video explores the plight of Sri Lanka's forgotten war widows and asks
how the island nation's new regime will help thousands of widows
struggling to survive.