[Marxism] More than 2000 Tamils killed overnight in Sri Lankan shelling of 'safe zone'

[Stuart Munckton <stuartmunckton@xxxxxxxxx>]

More than 2,000 civilians feared slaughtered in a single night [TamilNet,
Sunday, 10 May 2009, 02:55 GMT]
*Indiscriminate barrage of shelling by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on the
'safety zone' starting from Saturday night to Sunday morning slaughtered
more than 2,000 civilians including large number of women and children,
medical sources in Vanni said quoting the injured who managed to reach the
makeshift hospital. Dead bodies are scattered everywhere and 814 wounded
managed to reach the makeshift hospital up to 9:25 a.m., doctors said. Every
kind of lethal weapon such as the internationally banned cluster shells and
shells fired from Multi Barrel Rocket Launchers and Cannons were used
turning the so-called safety zone into a killing field. The SLA usually
chooses weekends for its massacres to minimise international attention.*

The entire family of a devoted nursing officer, Gracian Tharmarasa, has been
wiped out in the shelling.

Dead bodies are found in bunkers and inside the tarpaulin tents.

The exact number of the killed and injured is yet to be ascertained.

257 dead bodies, including 67 that of children, have been brought to the
hospital.

112 of the injured brought to the hospital were children.

The makeshift hospital which is now running in junior school in
Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal is struggling beyond words to cope with the situation, the
medical sources said.

"This is the first time in history where the International Community and the
UN have politically experimented such a mass killing of civilians in a
single day by giving an almost open consent to a government," described a
human rights professional in Colombo upon hearing the news.

The large scale slaughter is believed to be a result of India prodding
Colombo to finish the war before the change of government, political circles
in Colombo said adding that it seems that the 'war on terror' has been
translated into 'war on civilians' in the time of Obama Administration.


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