Sri Lanka's continuing humanitarian crisis

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Updated April 17, 2009 19:31:46

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has sent his top aide to Sri Lanka to urge the government to declare a new ceasfire. A two day unilateral government ceasefire at the begining of the week did not provide sufficient time for badly needed aid to get into the safe zone. Neither did many civilians trapped in there get a chance to escape, with reports of them being held as human shields by the rebels. Over 100 thousand civilians are now trapped in the narrow strip of land on the northeastern coast ... a third of whom are children.

Presenter: Kanaha Sabapathy
Speaker: James Elder, spokesman for UNICEF Colombo

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