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Lanka army `kills 45 civilians`
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MarkLevinson
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 8 Nov 2006 20:32:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hashini,
If they have radars to detect LTTE targets should they knowing that LTTE use humans as sheilds should a responsible government OK the attack or Back out?
Now I see you have truly attained the enlightenement!!!
I'll spare you for having a go at my twin bro Yoda....:):):):):):):)
These dumbs are plying right in to the hands of LTTE...even Americans didn't use things such as DaisyCutters where there were vietcong camps among villages!
May the FORCE be with you!!
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Refugee camp bombing kills 65 in Sri Lanka
by Amal Jayasinghe (AFP)
At least 65 civilians were killed and about 300 injured when government forces shelled a refugee camp in eastern Sri Lanka.
The bodies of the victims were brought to the Vakarai hospital inside the rebel-held part of Batticaloa following heavy artillery duels, while the wounded were taken to three hospitals in the district, Tamil rebels and medical sources said Wednesday.
A spokesman for the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said the final toll could rise to 100. The victims were ethnic Tamils who had been displaced by the recent upsurge in shelling in the region.
The Norwegian-led Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) said it had visited the area where a public building sheltering internally displaced persons (IDPs) had been shelled.
'Our monitors have counted 23 bodies, but there could be a lot more,' a spokeswoman for the SLMM said. 'We can confirm that it is an IDP centre that had been hit.'
The London-based international rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), condemned the attack and demanded an immediate investigation into the massacre.
'It is appalling that the military should attack a camp for displaced people,' AI's Asia Pacific Director Purna Sen said in a statement.
'We condemn all attacks on civilians and are particularly saddened and shocked to see such a large-scale attack on civilians just days after the government's announcement of its Commission of Inquiry into human rights abuses.'
AI said killing and injuring civilians could not be justified.
'The government must investigate this terrible attack as a matter of urgency. It must ensure that those responsible are brought to justice to signal to the rest of the military that attacking civilians will not be tolerated,' the statement said.
Sri Lanka's defence ministry did not comment on the statements, but suggested that there may have been civilian losses.
'It was what the Tigers wanted -- to cause damages to the innocent Tamil civilians by provoking the army to retaliate for the Tigers' sporadic and indiscriminate shelling,' the ministry said in a statement.
It accused the Tigers of using civilians as human shields to attack government forces in the restive region where both have blamed each other for starting the latest round of artillery duels.
'The Tigers had been planning this situation since the beginning of this month by detaining the innocent civilians in those areas by force to be used as a human shield when the time arises,' the defence ministry statement said.
The Tigers said the attack was timed when the world attention was on Iraq and elections in the United States.
'Is it possible that the Sri Lankan military's intention was to teach the Tamils the lesson that they, the military, can kill refugees in such numbers, and no one can stop them,' the Tigers said.
'The timing of the attack, when the world attention is focused on Iraq's Saddam Hussein and the US elections, must have also been selected to escape any international scrutiny of their methods,' the Tigers said in a statement.
Military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe said he was not aware of civilian casualties but confirmed 'heavy artillery and mortar bomb exchanges' in Batticaloa district, around 300 kilometres (190 miles) east of Colombo.
The latest bloodshed came as security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels accused each other of trying to spark full-scale war in a country where a Norwegian-arranged ceasefire is barely holding.
Nearly 3,300 people have been killed in fighting in the past year despite a 2002 truce in Sri Lanka's separatist conflict.
Sri Lanka's key foreign aid donors -- the United States, European Union, Japan and Norway -- have called both the government and the Tigers to refrain from military action after peace talks between the combatants collapsed in Geneva last month. |
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'Our monitors have counted 23 bodies, but there could be a lot more,' a spokeswoman for the SLMM said. 'We can confirm that it is an IDP centre that had been hit.'
The London-based international rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), condemned the attack and demanded an immediate investigation into the massacre.
'It is appalling that the military should attack a camp for displaced people,' AI's Asia Pacific Director Purna Sen said in a statement.
'We condemn all attacks on civilians and are particularly saddened and shocked to see such a large-scale attack on civilians just days after the government's announcement of its Commission of Inquiry into human rights abuses.'
'Is it possible that the Sri Lankan military's intention was to teach the Tamils the lesson that they, the military, can kill refugees in such numbers, and no one can stop them,' the Tigers said.
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8 Nov 2006 20:37:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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Read the article thoroughly,
'Tamil Tiger rebels say.'
Who cares what Terrorists have to say.
Another one just stumbled out of bed awking from a drunken stupour??
The world cares, in case you missed it they took the LTTE word for it and now that the monitors have been there it is confirmed. Fail much? You government sure does. |
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8 Nov 2006 20:37:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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| According to ltte thosai news SL army only kills children, civilians and cows. |
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 8 Nov 2006 20:37:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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What do you expect from a government thats full of thugs and morons. I am totally against any 'uninvolved' civilians being killed by either side the government of Sri Lanka has been always targeting the civilians most of the time, I am ceratin the tigers will retaliate in kind pretty soon and the IC will as usual condemn them.
Insects like Andu the Jackass should either become a Monk(ey)or join the criminals in the forces to masacre the civilians instead this parasite is hiding in canada doing nothing but living off the handouts and promoting racism.
Hei Modaya I have been telling you many times go to your motherlanka to serve the nation . Don't waste your valuable time in canada. |
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These are the buggers who are currently controlling the government of Sri Lanka no wonder Sri Lanka is one of most corrupted nations in the world. Saadhu Saadhu Saadhu Saadhu
[Monk allegedly forges Asgiri Mahanayake?s signature
By Susitha R. Fernando
The Fraud Investigation Bureau yesterday informed the Colombo Chief Magistrate that a monk had allegedly prepared a forged document containing Asgiriya Mahanayke Thera?s signature.
The FIB filing an investigation report informed court that alleged forged document had been prepared to take over the management of the Lenawela Rajamaha Viharaya. The police informed court that the suspect monk, Ven Lenegala Saranankara Thera had claimed that he was a descendant from Lenewela Sangha lineage which is said to have ceased to exist.
The investigation was started following a complaint received by Kandy police that the lands and the property of Wahakotte Lenawela Rajamahaviharaya which was controlled by the Asgiri Chapter was allegedly controlled by a monk who claimed that he belonged to Lenewela lineage.
The police had recorded statements from Ven Asgiriya Mahanayake Thera and the Commissioner of the Kandy Branch of Buddhist Affairs Department. In their statements it was revealed that a document with the signature of the Asgiriya Mahanayake Thera had been forwarded by the suspect monk. The Mahanayake Thera had denied it to be his signature
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 8 Nov 2006 20:39:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Condolences to the families of all the dead.
All you people in SL, especially Colombo, take care and be extra alert guys. This is the excuse needed for retaliations that might not consider the possibility of Collateral civilian damage.
Edited By - snake2 - 8 Nov 2006 20:40:34 GMT |
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8 Nov 2006 20:41:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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SLA artillary has killed lot of LTTE caders.
When Banu could not take the onslaught any more, he had asked Caders to move the Mortars behind the Refugee camp.
That is how BANU stopped the SLA Artillary attacks.
That is how LTTE legnedary Commanders win Wars.
When SLA comes he will hide behind the saree of his wife. |
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 8 Nov 2006 20:42:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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I think I know exactly what am I talking about but it seem you don't, After good three or four years ask any doctor, who you know, is it possible to sit for the final exams he or she sat in the end of their university education? You please go ahead and ask.
I thought maybe you want to know most of the modern day medical universities even if they are in the 'Banana republics' operating with the WHO registration, so their programs are equal to WHO standards.
Of course, I almost forgot, could you please let me know even one doctor, who went or will go.
Edited By - Saint - 8 Nov 2006 20:45:06 GMT |
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