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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 need is enormous...
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The need is enormous. The refugee organization of the United Nations estimates that on the entire island, there are about 700,000 displaced persons living in camps or wandering aimlessly. Almost every day, the land mines claim new victims. And the emotional damage is massive. In the region north of Vavuniya, 97 percent of the children witness traumatizing events – bombardment, fire, or slaughter of their relatives. About one quarter of the children suffer under the long-term effects of trauma. But in the whole North and East of the island, the areas most severely affected by the civil war, there are just three psychiatrists who can recognize and treat such emotional damage.