meet the needs of those who are most directly hit by the situation justin brady speaking to us there from mogadishu the head of the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in somalia thanks for being with us on al-jazeera just thank you. well sri lanka's government is paying tribute to the soldiers who died during the decades long civil war there it's been 10 years since the conflict with tamil separatist fighters ended the tamil community had a ceremony on saturday and now the government is honoring its soldiers at the war museum in colombo one 100000 people were killed in the fighting around 30000 of them soldiers from an elephant and as has more from the capital. this event the sort of national monument to the fallen soldiers to the military personnel a very march recognizing the contribution made to the war effort there are more than 28000 police and military personnel who are believed to have died during the 26 there's more than 6000 people still listed as missing in terms of the force and thousands of others have been rendered disables due to injuries sustained during the war so this event very much sort of a recognition of that contribution just