Image media !

[HRW and AAAS (American Association for the
Advancement of Science) explanation for the image:

This image shows interior walls, likely evidence of burning, of destroyed
permanent structures in the CZ on May 6, 2009 (Lat: 9.31 N Long: 80.77 E).]

First see the AAAS/HRW image at top.

Then, see these yellow marked building locations in goggle image in centre image. All places are empty, and google image is also not very old (may be 2009, digital globe image).

Then see the bottom image, specially location A and B.
When bombs or shells destroyed just next houses, these blue marked houses are intact.

Conclusion:
The HRW red arrow marked buildings may have destroyed, but not 100% sure about the bomb involvement. One possibility is, those buildings have build very recently and also removed when SLA advanced. May be partly damage by fire or purposely destroyed by LTTE to hide some evidence. If we can have more images, this hypothesis is easy to check. Anyway, the interesting point is, red arrowed buildings are all not visible in Google image, and still nearly all old buildings are intact.

By this analysis, I don`t suggest, war is not destroying civilian property. But the fact is, these sort of satellite image analysis must use more data and must cross-check before publish. These information are not easy for general people to comment and they have to accept without much argument. It hurts a lot, if the truth is not correctly tailored.