UN official says Sri Lanka situation "grim"
Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA)
Date: 04 Mar 2009
Geneva_(dpa) _ The humanitarian situation in north-eastern Sri Lanka has become "extremely grim," a senior United Nations official in the Asian country said Wednesday.
Gordon Wiess, the spokesman for the UN's operations in Sri Lanka warned that some 70,000 to 200,000 were trapped in a tiny enclave between a lagoon and the sea front, desperate for food, shelter and drinking water.
He said it was "unacceptable" that civilians were cut off from aid. "There is virtually no humanitarian access to the enclave. Nothing like what is needed to sustain the population inside there," Wiess said in a telephone interview.
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