Gallery: Sri Lanka: srilanka16

A Tamil woman stays at her war-torn house in Jaffna, one of the most critical places for LTTE and the Sri Lankan government -- the absolute majority of the town is Tamil but controlled by the government. In Jaffna, unemployment prevails and many face extreme poverty and dangerous situations due to the long civil war and the current fresh fighting, as well as Tsunami. Jaffna, Sri Lanka, June 23, 2006.