evidence: Realizing Children’s Rights in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s record since the end of the 20th century through 2009 has been quite tragic : armed conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 100,000 people and displaced another 300,000 or so, plus there was a tsunami that claimed nearly 30,000 victims. Sri Lanka’s children have suffered a great deal and have only barely begun to dream of a better future [...] Children have not been spared from the bloody conflict that has engulfed Sri Lanka over the past decades. The war has affected their situation in more ways than one. Thousands of people have died or disappeared during these years, often leaving their children to carry on by themselves. Life for these orphans has proven difficult. Some of the more fortunate have been united with their families, but most of them remain abandoned, homeless and without access to any form of aid.