Hundreds who fled intense fighting in Sri Lanka's war zone awaited evacuation from a tiny coastal village as the U.N. reported that nearly 6,500 ethnic Tamil civilians had been killed in the last three months.
Speaking to journalists on a rare visit to the edge of the war zone, civilians said Tamil Tiger rebels used them as human shields. Conditions "were terrible as we did not have anything to eat. We thought, it's better to flee," said Rajeshwarai, 40, who gave only her first name.
