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Sri Lanka in Pictures

August 28, 2008 | Pulitzer Center
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An empty can of palm oil provided by the United Nations at a camp for displaced people, Eastern Province.

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Roadside camp for people displaced by fighting, Muthur district, Eastern Province.

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Sri Lanka army soldier on patrol, Trincomalee, Eastern Province.

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Sri Lankan army soldier surveys street, Trincomalee, Eastern Province, a former LTTE stronghold.

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Displaced Tamil boy at camp, Eastern Province.

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Tamil women waiting for aid distribution at a roadside camp, Eastern Province.

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Ration card given to camp residents, Eastern Province.

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This elderly man was forced from his home two years ago and is desperate to return, Eastern Province.

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These children have lived in a camp for the past two years, where their father died of a fever several months ago, Eastern Province.

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Father Henry Miller, a Jesuit missionary and activist who has lived in Batticaloa for more than 60 years, Eastern Province.

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This Tamil man, a fisherman, lives in a seaside idp camp where he is forbidden fish since the government declared the area a high security zone, near Batticaloa, Eastern Province.

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Tattered election poster of Pillayan, Muthur district, Eastern Province.

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Opening of a new bus station sponsored by the US government to bring ethnic Tamils and Sinhalese together, Batticaloa, Eastern Province.

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Pillayan, a former child soldier turned LTTE leader who broke from the group two years ago and this spring became chief minister of the Eastern Province, Batticaloa.

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Batticaloa lagoon at sunset, Eastern Province.

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Fishermen haul in the morning catch, near Trincomalee, Eastern Province. Naval patrols force them to stay close to shore.

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Stilt fishermen at dusk, southern coast.

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Boat damaged by Asia tsumani, southern coast. Sri Lanka was one of the countries hardest hit by the storm.

Photographs by Jason Motlagh