The Power of Good PeopleIn May 2009, Sri Lanka's long and dreadful civil war was finally brought to a horrific end. Ruthlessly driven to a small strip of land on the tip of the island's north east coast, tens of thousands of innocent civilians died, smashed by artillery, killed by snipers, denied medical treatment and starved to death beneath the baking sun. This ferocious battle consolidated and highlighted the terrors of the preceding twenty six years of war, characterised