Sothi Risha was a farmer until he was shelled out of his village north of Batticaloa, a town in eastern Sri Lanka, in March. When he and his wife and four children arrived at a camp for the displaced near the coastal town, he bought a fishing net to help feed his now aid-dependent family.
The local fishermen don't like newcomers on their patch, Mr Risha said, as he mended his net beside a small tent, one in a long row, made of white plastic sheeting, which sagged in the 40-degree Celsius heat. He longed to go home to his crops. But he counted himself lucky; his wife's uncle was killed by army shells as he fled from his home on a bicycle.