With their worlds wrapped up in plastic bags, thousands of Sri Lankan refugees are risking their lives by crossing the Palk Strait to India to escape the fighting ravaging their homeland. Since January more than 13,000 Tamils have completed the treacherous 20-mile voyage from Mannar to Rameswaran, a temple island in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where they are dropped on Kodiakkarai beach to eke out an existence alongside 59,000 others in government-run refugee camps. Full Story