MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka — U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon flew over the scorched and deserted landscape of Sri Lanka’s last battlefield Saturday and urged the government to let more aid reach displaced Tamils.
The secretary-general said his tour of a hastily erected displacement camp housing more than 200,000 people "was a very sobering visit, very sad, very moving.”
Ban was the first major international figure to visit since President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday.
Nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians were uprooted from their homes in the final months of fighting and sent to dozens of gover-nment-run camps.
by the associated press
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