WHO WILL HELP 49000 TAMIL WIDOWS IN EASTERN SRILANKA!!!

WIDOWS NEED HELP‏
Fra: Nadarajah Satchi (nsatchi@hotmail.com)
Sendt: 28. mars 2009 05:38:10
Til: anas nawas (anasnawas@yahoo.com)



FYI
49,000 widows in eastern Sri Lanka need jobs: U.N. official

Colombo (PTI): There are at least 49,000 widows in urgent need of employement in the war ravaged Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, a U.N. official has said, warning that if left in lurch many of them could turn into suicide bombers.

There are 49,000 widows in the province and out of them 35,000 are below 30 years while unemployment ratio is around 30 per cent, the Island Newspaper said quoting a a top U.N. official as saying.

There are also 8,000 TMVP cadres who are now unemployed and this is a serious issue which has to be addressed sooner than later, it said.

While several were widowed during the LTTE war, many women in the region also lost their spouses during the Tsuanami in December 2004.

"Many of these women are widows of LTTE fighters before the TMVP carved out a separate group from the LTTE and joined the mainstream," Nawaz Rajabdeen, National director UNIDO Sri Lanka, said.

The widows also include those who lost their husbands in the 2004 Tsunami catastrophe, a U.N. Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) official said.

"Unless rehabilitated, they could turn into suicide bombers with no other choice than to rejoin the militant groups," he added.