Indian Christians urge help for Sri Lankan refugees

Tamil Christians in India have called on their government to do more to help thousands of Sri Lankans stranded for the last six months in refugee camps, where conditions are reportedly poor.
by Joseph Keenan, Christian Post
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Tamil Christians in India are supporting nearly 300,000 Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka who have been in temporary camps for the past six months.

The refugees, many of them Christians, were displaced by the conflict between Sri Lankan army and the Tamil militants, the Liberation Tamil Tiger Eelam (LTTE), which came to an end in May this year after 26 years.

In a memorandum submitted to the government of India, Tamil Christians in India said, “Thousands are dying of hunger and difficulties in the refugee camps”. the rest