The award-winning French charity Handicap International has a small factory producing artificial limbs in Batticaloa in Sri Lanka’s eastern province

The charity, which has a small factory producing artificial limbs in Batticaloa in Sri Lanka’s eastern province, has opened an emergency unit at one of the centres for people who fled the fighting, and is working with other suppliers to meet what it described a “huge demand”.The scale of civilian casualties who have been maimed in the war was disclosed by the award-winning French charity Handicap