India has also been held back from building warmer relations with colombo by politicians in its southern state of tamil nadu , where politicians were sympathetic to the tamil minority 's fight for greater autonomy .
A report from the office of the un 's resident co-ordinator in colombo says agencies providing shelter are also struggling to secure funds to build housing fast enough to keep pace with the numbers going home .
They 're finding plenty of eager buyers among wealthy colombo families and foreigners looking for a vacation home .
他们在有钱并寻找度假屋的科伦坡家庭和外国人中找到了大量热切的买家。
An asian elephant is dressed up for the buddhist festival of vesak in colombo , sri lanka .
斯里兰卡科伦坡,卫塞节上一只亚洲象披上节日盛装。
Some hours later only a few bursts of firecrackers were heard in colombo when state television aired footage of the dead tiger supremo , velupillai prabhakaran .
But the figures it contains are consistent with those quoted to the bbc by another doctor at the hospital , and with reports sent , from various sources , to foreign diplomats in colombo .
Dushni weerakoon of the institute of policy studies in colombo says that the concessions are so generous that political pressure for a deal must have trumped economic concerns .
A sri lankan wild elephant is seen tied to trees before being sent to a wildlife sanctuary , in ralapanawa in puttlum , about 121 miles north of colombo , sri lanka .