Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, right, interacts with internally displaced ethnic Tamil civilians at a camp for the displaced at Manik Farm in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. Rajapaksa visited north Sri Lanka Wednesday to open a war memorial dedicated to government soldiers killed in the island's civil war, according to news reports.
(AP Photo/Sanath Priyantha)