Like others clambering on the jaffna bus this week , mr chandran was happy that mobility between the mainly sinhalese south and the mostly tamil north is increasing .
The u. n. refugee agency says about 3 00000 internally displaced people are living in 40 emergency shelter sites spread across the districts of vavuniya , jaffna and trincomalee .
联合国难民署说,大约有30万流离失所的人生活在遍布瓦武尼亚、贾夫纳和亭可马里区的40个紧急避难所。
Indeed , in jaffna , tna leaflets claimed that to vote for the ruling coalition would be to subject the peninsula to rule by sri lanka 's mainly-buddhist sinhala majority .
确实,在贾夫纳,tna的宣传册声称给执政联盟投票就是把半岛送给斯里兰卡占多数的僧伽罗人统治。
These sinhalese say they fled ethnic violence in jaffna at the start of the war in 1983 , and were dispersed in various southern districts .
In the event , low turnout and the unexpected success of a pro-tiger party jolted the government in the elections on august 8th to the jaffna municipal and vavuniya urban councils
So in november , when the conflict forced the main road into the jaffna peninsula to close , pathiranage placed a long-distance call and asked : " theva , can I do anything ? "
" The fact that the hsbc logo is going to be on display up in jaffna sends a powerful signal to the international investment community , " said nick nicolaou , hsbc chief executive for sri lanka and the maldives .
Shaking the rain out of his hair , ravi chandran boarded a state-run bus for jaffna in the north and looked around . It would leave colombo soon , at 11.30pm , and he wanted to grab a good seat for what could be a 16-hour journey .