VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka, May 23 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Sri Lanka must try to heal the wounds of its just-ended civil war by reaching out to minority ethnic Tamils.
Speaking Saturday at the main government-run camp for refugees near Vavuniya, Ban said Sri Lanka must now show it can win the peace just as it has won the 26-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in which about 80,000 people are estimated to have been killed, the BBC reported.