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Mahindas Military victory Jaffna malnourished , mahinda war on children , Close A9 so no rice and vegitable to go from Vanni and other parts and Fishing Ban.
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 - 5:51 PM SL Time |  | |
Mahinda and all other sinhala leaders always wanted to target the childrens so that they dont grow up and fight.
just like his predessors mahinda following his genocide war.
targetting childrens A9 was closed for this reason.
Children malnourished in Jaffna
By Shezna Shums
More than 185 children are severely malnourished in the north according to the Deputy Provincial Director of Health Services.
These children are from areas in Kopay and Kayts health divisions, and were registered with the community level Nutrition Rehabilitation Programme (NRP).
It was also highlighted that a further 9,510 children between the ages of six months to five years, from seven health divisions registered with the community level NRP, are being given High Energy Biscuits. UNICEF has also airlifted 77 boxes of a milk based food supplement to combat malnutrition while a nutrition rehabilitation programme implemented by Deputy Provincial Director of Health Services is also being carried out.
According to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Team situation report, in April, the World Food Programme (WFP) issued two weeks food for 120,000 vulnerable beneficiaries consisting of a total of 39,000 families under the Vulnerable Group Feeding programme. Beneficiaries will receive food supplies for a period of 12 weeks.
However, the allocation is 15 kg of food per person per month.
In the Districts of Vavuniya and Mannar high energy biscuits were distributed to pregnant mothers and children.
Supplementary food and fresh food rations in the Kiliveddy Transit Sites are not systematically distributed to IDPs who remain displaced near their places of origin.
These IDPs are unable to return home and it is difficult to coordinate food supplies for them as they are dispersed in a number of villages.
Meanwhile in the Batticaloa District, WFP continues to assist 72 percent or about a 100,000 persons of the total IDP population in the district, with basic food rations while NGOs cover 18 per cent of the total.
There are still significant gaps in the district as 10 per cent of the IDPs or about 13,000 people are not receiving food supplies regularly.
Responding to a request by the World Food Programme, the ICRC has begun providing 750 tonnes of rice to feed more than 120,000 displaced people in Eastern Sri Lanka for one month.
The rice will be delivered in stages during the month of May.
About 600 tonnes will be distributed to 100,000 people in Batticaloa district and the remainder to 24,000 people in the Trincomalee district.
WFP is currently distributing two weeks dry rations for the period May 7-20 amounting to a total of 700 metric tonnes for 100,000 IDPs.
It was also stated that there are a further 187 malnourished children out of 4,780 children who have been identified and registered under the programme to get Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic-Food by UNICEF.
Due to considerable increase of IDPs in the four divisions of Thirukkovil, Kalmunai (Tamil), Navithanvely and Alayadivembu, it was agreed to provide 15 days ration instead of a monthly ration, twice a month.
However, the Divisional Secretaries face difficulty preparing Social Service Department forms for food distribution twice a month.
In addition, due to the security situation and tension in some areas of Thirukkovil, Damana, Lahugala and Navithanvely divisions, School Feeding programme activities have been interrupted or stopped. |
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JRJayawardena
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16 May 2007 11:05:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ajan,
malnourishment is nothing new to Sri Lanka, leave Jaffna aside take a view in Colombo and surbubans you'll see how similar pictures there too. I think malnourishment is just a part of any 3rd world country. This is why the war should come to an end to develop the other issues.
Btw, mate you have changed the picture and this one alone tells millions of similar other people in our country. Good thought! Hope these little kids have a prosperous future.
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16 May 2007 12:21:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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JR i dont agree with your comment at all.
one need to look closely
it is government closed the A9 otheriwse vegitables rice would have come from other provices.
saying LTTE will inflitrate, real aim was to stave and kill more tamils.
LTTE never used A9 they have their own routes.
now that is in the open how long would it take them to carry their cardets by helicoptors?
fishing ban was imposed to make tamil childrens suffer.
one need to look poor families cant efford to eat meat everyday, some cant even buy meat once a months.
only nutrition they get is from fish.
by closing A9 government blocked chickens food so noone couldnt keep their
chickens.
if no WFP or other UN arent there all those people would have died of stavation.
i was looking at a child that i had seen last year he lost almost all weight because the families couldnt get milk or milk powder.
you can understand how this makes us feel. |
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17 May 2007 12:08:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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@ Ajan,
If LTTE has their own routes and they are so mighty as you say they are why cant they take care of these ppl who are starving??
I am not saying that the GOSL is right, but neither is LTTE.
We are all talking about the Bunker rat, i am pretty sure that the guy is over the seven sees, and he might even have got a plastic surgery done. You think the sun goat really interests the plight of the poor Tamils.????
WAKE UP MATE, neither the GOSL or LTTE is the solution, but the educated TAMILS and SINHALESE,they should form columns to take the responsibility for the blunder in Sri Lanka |
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