Sri Lanka's new prime minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe, pledged a new welfare centre would be set up for Tamil families, particularly women headed households, in the former LTTE administrative centre of Kilinochchi, reports Asian Mirror.
"It is a well known fact that most suffered persons due to a war are women and children. In the north alone there are nearly 50,000 families that are headed by women. They are made destitute due to their inability to provide food, accommodation and educational needs to their children," the prime minister's office was quoted by the paper as saying in a statement on Sunday.
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