Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / May 2006

Tell me you AI and Tamil Tger criminals, is that suicidal pregnent
woman who jumped in to army General's car  a civilian? Is that woman
Dhanu who pretended to be pregnent, gone to garland Rajiv Ghandhi a
civilian? You  effing hypocryites.

hahahaha
Babies in the LTTE army. 5000 kids and babies were kidnapped by LTTE to get killed by LTTE after CFA.

 Sri Lanka 'must probe' killings

 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA370142006?open&of=ENG-LKA
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4990694.stm

 Amnesty International has urged the Sri Lankan government to
 investigate fully a spate of killings of civilians.

 The human rights group noted "a disturbing pattern of incomplete or
 ineffective investigations by the government" into such violence.

 The appeal came after 13 Tamil civilians, two of them young children,
 were shot dead near Jaffna on Saturday.

 Tamil Tiger rebels accused the navy of "slaughter", but officials
 denied any involvement and blamed the rebels.

 The Sri Lankan government has obligations under international law to
 take steps to prevent such killings - Amnesty International

 The two sides have failed to agree dates for fresh peace talks in the
 past month, which has seen more than 200 people killed, many of them
 civilians or members of the security forces.

 Last week, international ceasefire monitors repeated that they had
 evidence to suggest the authorities were involved in killing Tamils,
 although not in a systematic way.

 Sri Lanka's authorities reject suggestions they are in any way involved
 in the killings.

 Meanwhile, at least two civilians and three members of the security
 forces were killed in a series of attacks in the north and east on
 Wednesday.

 'Justice'

 A four-month-old baby, his four-year-old brother and their parents were
 among those shot dead on Saturday night on navy-controlled Kayts island
 near the northern town of Jaffna.

 Amnesty International said it was alarmed by the increasing number of
 civilians being killed in what it called a "low-intensity armed
 conflict" in Sri Lanka.

 The group welcomed the government's condemnation of the Kayts island
 killings and the announcement that police were investigating.

 But it added: "There is a disturbing pattern of incomplete or
 ineffective investigations by the government, with the result that
 perpetrators of such violence generally operate with impunity.

 "The government must carry out independent, impartial and effective
 investigations into all killings; the results of these investigations
 should be made public, and those found responsible for the attacks must
 be brought to justice."

 'No link'

 Amnesty said it had received "credible reports" that Sri Lanka navy
 personnel and gunmen affiliated with the Eelam People's Democratic
 Party (EPDP), a Tamil political party opposed to the Tamil Tigers, were
 present at the scene of the killings.

 "Regardless of who is responsible for the attacks, the Sri Lankan
 government has obligations under international law to take steps to
 prevent such killings," it said.

 EPDP secretary-general Douglas Devananda dismissed the suggestion as
 "baseless".

 "There is no link between the EPDP and the incidents in northern Sri
 Lanka," he told the BBC Tamil service.

 The Tamil Tigers said the navy or paramilitary groups supported by the
 security forces killed the Tamils on Kayts.

 The government suggested the killings could be a part of a rebel
 strategy "to divert international opinion", but the rebels said they
 had no access to the area.

 A 2002 truce accord is under severe strain but is still technically in
 place.