Report from the abandoned people

In the absence of international and local news agencies it is hard to know what is happening to the 250,000 Tamil people trapped in a bloody war between Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) is the only NGO operating in the area apart from the few visits by ICRC. The following is an extract from the report from a TRO official.

"With the shortage of anti biotics, anesthesia and pethadin that helps in the surgery and aftermath people prefer getting killed to getting wounded. The pain during the amputations and the wounds getting puss without antibiotic and the non availability of drugs dragging the healing of a wound are matters which make life unbearable. Amputations are taking place without anesthesia. Operation theatre is like a slaughter house with pool of blood. With screaming and shrieking voices it becomes a torture chamber. Dead are the blessed who will not suffer."

Entire report can be found here.