Tamil Civilians Prisoned in Sri Lanka's Nazi Like Concentration Camps

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When Ban Ki-moon visited Sri Lanka, few journalists managed to get permission to travel along with him to the detention camps where the tamil people captured from conflict area are kept in. The camp visited is called Manik Farm, the largest displacement camp in Sri Lanka and one of the largest in the world. The camp is surrounded with razor coil fence and fully controlled by army personals, making it like an open prison. The below briefing is about the conditions of the Manik Farm camp:

"WE are in an open jail," Kumar whispers, his skinny shoulders shaking as he looks around to check who is watching. "Help us, we want to be free."
He is one of the 220,000 Tamil civilians being held against their will behind the razor-wire coils that surround Manik Farm, the largest displacement camp in Sri Lanka and one of the largest in the world. Camp is not the word its inmates use for it. A prison and a concentration camp were two of the descriptions made to outsiders on a rare visit to the camp on the sidelines of the visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Squalor is less the defining feature of Manik Farm than militarism. The presence of armed soldiers around the camp and its perimeter is overwhelming. New armoured patrol vehicles sit at the entrance to the side of a sandbagged bunker. The entire camp is surrounded by 2m-high wooden posts, strung with barbed wire and wreathed with coils of razor wire. From the air, the nearby site of the final battle reveals itself one clue at a time - the scorched patches of earth, blasted palm trees, burnt-out skeletal houses.

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