People in many other areas must also be suffering due to a lack of essential supplies. While all sectors of society are suffering, the effects on children, the most vulnerable sector of any society is particularly heartbreaking. Inadequate educational and health supplies are bound to have long term negative affects. The psychological damage caused by a life fraught with instability and uncertainty cannot be conducive to the hopes of a happy future. The way in which these innocents are recruited at young ages by the LTTE shows clearly the disregard for human rights of even children, present in this war torn country.
Women too seem particularly vulnerable with many suffering the direct affects of violence.
This situation can only be made worse when they suffer the loss of husbands and are faced with the new role of sole supporters of their families in circumstances of negative economic opportunity. The suffering of men must not be forgotten, especially as they are the main targets of arrest and aggression by security forces It goes without saying that the people of this country are suffering greatly due to the conflict. I find it sad that people in the world find it easy to close off to such conflicts and the struggles of such people. Such situations seem to be increasingly common throughout the world today, but I feel we must not be desensitised to such situations. If this were happening in my home country of England, I and my country people would be in a state of shock, outrage and terror.