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'Prices keep increasing weekly.' Rosy Theyagarajah told IRIN. 'A fixed rate on commodities is not maintained and shops sell goods at whatever price they want,' she complains. 'Very soon our children will be starving as we no longer have money to buy food.'

Rosy Theyagarajah has been living in Jaffna for the past 32 years and says the current situation is the worst she has experienced. She says some children are now suffering malnutrition. 'Even during the 20-year war between the government and the LTTE, we had food to fill our stomachs,' she says. 'But today we have nothing. My husband is out of work and my children only get one meal a day,' she

If they are forcibly sent back to their villages their lives are in high risk as paramilitaies and SLAF have blank cheque to do whatever with them. The president denies there are human rights violation though the disapprearances and killings are well documented by HRC which ia also manned by Sinhalese.

The catch word here is 'pressing public necessity.'

The evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II finally have made their way into our history books. The injustice of these events perpetrated by the United States government has awakened the conscience of Congress enough to induce it to appropriate redress to the victims. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 began providing eligible Japanese Americans with an apology from the U.S. government and $20,000 in reparations for the loss of liberty and destruction of property suffered at the hands of U.S. officials.