After the end of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war, the government and the Tamil Tigers it was fighting have come under fire for human rights abuses.<br /><br />A report by the US state department has accused the Tigers and the government of atrocities.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan government is stepping up up the pace of its release of thousands of ethnic Tamil refugees. <br />They have been living in squalid conditions in camps in the country's north since the end of the war in May.<br /><br />Azhar Sukri has the latest.