Sri Lankan Government Struggles to Supply Food to Jaffna

CHAN: Food is in especially short supply in the Jaffna region in northern Sri Lanka.

That's because the military has shut the main north-south highway that runs through

Tiger rebel territory. They say the Tamil Tiger terrorist have made the road unsafe with artillery fire. Food is being shipped by boat instead.

STORY: Residents receive rations but say they are not enough.

Local government officials say that between August and September, Jaffna peninsula was short 11,055 tones of essentials like rice, flour and sugar.

The prices of staples like fish and vegetables have soared and some goods, like matches and mosquito coils, have gone up 10-fold, in turn coinciding with a suspected d outbreak of hundreds of cases of mosquito-borne

Chikungaya fever.

[Jeyarajini Selvan, Waiting for Food]: "If we get our rations once a week then things can get a bit better. The government must increase the rations. What we get now is not enough to live."

More than three thousand people have been killed this year in the violence and it may be spreading even further.

Each side accuses the other of trying to rekindle a two-decade conflict that has killed more than 65,000 people since 1983.

The government has rejected the Tigers' demand for a separate country...and any meaningful peace deal is seen years off.

Fighting for a separate homeland for the country's minority Tamils.

Prices of milk powder, rice, soap and sugar have more than tippled in private grocery stores after the A-9 road was shut.

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