The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has a Sri Lanka portal which is a good source of maps. U.N. website Reliefweb also has useful maps.

For details of people uprooted by the conflict and tsunami see the website of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. This has stats and reports on displacement past and present as well as its effects on health and education.

The UNHCR Sri Lanka page has facts and figures about the refugee situation.

Amnesty International's Sri Lanka page has reports and statements on human rights abuses. It also has information on Karuna, a former Tamil Tiger commander turned member of parliament. It says Karuna, who broke from the Tigers to set up the Tamil People's Liberation Tigers (TMVP), should be tried for war crimes.

In 2006, Human Rights Watch accused Sri Lankan security forces of helping Karuna's breakaway faction to abduct boys and young men to fight. Click here for HRW's report.

For detailed information on the Tamil Tigers' use of child soldiers see this HRW report from 2004 which includes interviews with child recruits.

Other sources of information include the U.N. office for Children and Armed Conflict and the Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers.

For background on landmine use visit the website of the Landmine Monitor which produces a detailed report every year.

The website for the Government of Sri Lanka has general news and links to ministries.

For the Tamil perspective have a look at the following:

EelamWeb - a Tamil Tiger website with information on their history and operations, in English and Tamil

TamilNet - a Tamil news service providing comprehensive coverage of Tamil issues

Tamilnation - a site in English and Tamil with information on Tamil history and culture

Eelam Nation - a news and information service on Tamil affairs and the struggle for an independent homeland

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