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Photos from the Peace Counts Report in Sri Lanka
- A bloody civil war...
- Sri Lanka - destruction from the war
- Ghost country...
- One and a half million landmines...
- Rohini Narasingham...
- Children like little Ravindran...
- The conflict...
- War victims...
- The aim of SEED...
- Foreign aid organizations...
- Becoming dependent...
- When the Berlin wall came down...
- In a mud hut...
- Alternative ideas...
- The first German donations...
- The SEED team...
- Back then...
- The need is enormous...
- Economic recovery...
- Watched by armed guards...
- The most necessary things...
- We have to learn...
- An oasis...
- The leftovers...
- A headstrong commune...
- On the inside...
The conflict...
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They work in the north of Sri Lanka, in the ghost country. The region was particularly hard hit by the murderous civil war that broke out in 1983 and lasted 20 years. The conflict between the Tamil liberation movement LTTE in the north and the government of Sri Lanka claimed about 70,000 lives, forced one and a half million people to flee, and, economically, it set the country back several decades: destroyed villages, wounded souls.