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Report: 1 million children hurt by Sri Lankan conflict
November 12, 1996
Web posted at: 2:45 p.m. EST (1945 GMT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Thirteen years of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka have left more than one million children dead, injured or displaced, the Britain-based Save the Children organization said Tuesday. Nearly a quarter million of them are under age 5.
The findings were published in a report to the United Nations earlier this month after two years of research by Graca Michel, the U.N. secretary-general's expert on the subject. The report said that over 2 million children have been killed in armed conflicts all over the world in the past 10 years.
In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger rebels are battling the majority Sinhalese government for an independent homeland.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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