Four years after war, Sri Lanka widows fear rape, abuse

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka: They arrived suddenly on her doorstep pretending to be friends of her dead husband. Faceless men she suspects were security agents, they physically abused her and threatened to come again.

Scared and alone, Gowry did what she always does—she packed in a hurry and fled with her two young children, the third time in recent years that she has moved house in Sri Lanka’s former northern war zone.