In July
2009, a Times journalist reported that 1,400 people had died in Manik Farm camp following fierce fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE). This article looks at the truth
behind these claims and the difficulties faced by humanitarian aid agencies in assessing the conditions faced by the displaced in the camps.
A father and his son, fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, waits for handouts outside a distribution point for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Dera Ismail Khan, located in Pakistan's ...
