15 years after Sri Lanka’s war, disabled vets hit hardest by climate disaster

Sri Lanka’s long-running civil war ended 15 years ago. But the tens of thousands of Tamil people gravely wounded in the fighting still bear the scars. Reporter Jason Strother says the women he met in northeast Sri Lanka who lost limbs feel particularly vulnerable to natural disasters — wherein it can be hard to flee to safety. 

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