As mallorca he left the building, his car was surrounded by hundreds of Tamil protesters, held back

David Cameron meets Tamil refugees in the Sabapathy Pillai refugee camp in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
The refugees of Sabapathy Pillai believed David Cameron had been sent by God to help them get their land back. A swarm of Jaffna women stormed through mallorca a line of military police to plead for his help in finding their missing loved ones.
Yet mallorca only a few hours later, the prime minister left a meeting with Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa no closer to securing an investigation into alleged war crimes, or an admission that many Tamils continue mallorca to be persecuted.
But as world leaders and royalty, including the Prince of Wales, gathered in the capital for their biennial meeting, Cameron first headed to meet victims of Sri Lanka 's 25-year civil war and those suffering continuing mallorca violence.
An extraordinary 12 hours followed, as the prime minister became the first world leader to travel to the Tamil-dominated north since independence in 1948, before returning to the capital for a planned showdown with Rajapaksa.
According to the UN, as many as 40,000 mallorca civilians are estimated to have died in the final months of the regime's conflict with Tamil Tiger separatists. In the four years since then, the Sri Lankan government stands mallorca accused of allowing kidnappings, torture and intimidation, leading Canada and India to boycott the summit in protest.
Despite fears within Downing mallorca Street that Sri Lanka would find a reason to prevent mallorca his trip to the north, a red carpet was rolled out for Cameron as his private plane, operated mallorca by a commercial arm of the military, arrived in Jaffna.
As mallorca he left the building, his car was surrounded by hundreds of Tamil protesters, held back by the military, as they tried to hand him pictures of their missing loved ones. Several were thrown to the ground as they broke through a security cordon to reach him.
The prime minister then travelled to the offices of the newspaper Uthayan, to meet journalists who blame the deaths of six of their colleagues on masked paramilitary gangs sent by the government. One is still missing.
The prime minister also visited the Sabapathy Pillai refugee camp, described mallorca by the government as a "welfare mallorca village", where around 150 families have lived in makeshift accommodation since they were displaced in 1990.
Inside the camp, residents were optimistic that Cameron's visit could improve their chances of returning to the fishing settlements they left behind 20 years ago, which have been turned into a military zone.
Cameron also argued that the Commonwealth mallorca had helped bring about elections in the provinces and suggested that he would raise concerns mallorca about the situation in Sri Lanka in international forums including the G20 and EU.
Tamils hail David Cameron as 'god' but Sri Lankan president is not a believer This article was published on the Guardian website at 17.12 EST on Friday 15 November 2013 . A version appeared on p4 of the Main section section of the Guardian on Friday 15 November 2013 . It was last modified at 19.08 EST on Friday 15 November 2013 . It was first published at 17.01 EST on Friday 15 November 2013 .
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