Internally displaced people (IDPs) wait inside a stadium in Jaffna as police officers keep watch, August 5, 2009. Some 3,000 IDPs from the Vanni area, mostly residents of Jaffna in the north of Sri Lanka, were released from IDP camps where they have been living since the end of the Sri Lanka government's campaign against Tamil Tiger rebels. The sign in the foreground refers to the village that the IDPs in the picture belong to. REUTERS/StringerAP - A series of satellite images taken over Sri Lanka's former war zone showed the existence of large grave sites and evidence of possible mortar positions near areas that had been packed with trapped civilians, a human rights group said Thursday.



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