UN says Sri lanka Kills 1000s tamil civiliansUSA says Sri lanka Kills 1000s tamil civiliansUK says Sri lanka Kills 1000s tamil civiliansIndia says Sri lanka Kills 1000s tamil civiliansSri Lankna Tamils says Sri...
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The UN children's agency warned that a threatened Sri Lankan assault against holdout Tamil Tiger rebels risked the lives of thousands of trapped children.EU foreign ministers reaffirmed concern about mass civilian...
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Heavy shelling by the Sri Lankan army of a designated safe area has left 129 civilians dead and 282 woundedSri lankan government forces pounded the area on the northeast coast throughout Wednesday, hitting sites...
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• Doctor says 20 people killed and 300 injured Sri Lanka: 'What's happening there is another genocide like Rwanda"At least 20 people were killed and nearly 300 injured yesterday when a hospital in the last area...
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"LONDON (AFP) — About 3,000 men, women and children staged a peaceful demonstration outside parliament in London against alleged human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, police said.Carrying banners reading "Stop Sri Lanka's Genocide of Tamils" and "Rwandan Genocide Repeats in Sri...
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The Sri Lankan government has apparently given its security forces a green light to use ‘dirty war’ tactics. -Brad Adams, Asia Director, Human Rights Watch-The Sri Lankan government is responsible for...
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"Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and police took into custody 301 persons including 257 Tamils in a joint search conducted in Gampaha, in the outskirts of Colombo city, from Thursday 6:00 p.m till Friday 6:00 a.m, according to police spokesman, Ranjith Gunasekara. 8,830 persons were...
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U.N.: Up to 190,000 trapped in Sri Lanka fighting "UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Western nations urged both sides in Sri Lanka's long-running civil war to allow for a "humanitarian pause" as U.N. officials on Thursday raised their estimate of the number of civilians trapped in the...
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"We have urged the government of Sri Lanka to cease the shelling near civilian areas," she said after the U.N. Security Council met informally behind closed doors to discuss Sri Lanka. "We've had promises, but we need to see results.""The United States accused Sri Lanka...
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Article 18 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that the civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but...
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"131 civilians, including 32 children were killed in various types of attacks carried out by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) inside the safety zone throughout the day on Thursday, according to data collected from various local NGO workers and...
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Shelling killed 54 civilians Wednesday in a supposed "no-fire" zone in Sri Lanka's war between the government and separatist Tamil rebels, and the exodus of people fleeing the fighting picked up pace, officials...
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" NEW DELHI (AFP) — Indiscriminate army shelling is killing dozens of civilians every day in a no-fire zone in northern Sri Lanka where Tamil Tiger rebels are staging a last stand, a rights group said Tuesday. "We receive reports of civilians being killed and wounded daily...
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The media group says 14 journalists and media workers have been killed in Sri Lanka in the past two years, while eight have been abducted and four others imprisoned. It says licenses for some radio stations have...
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The Sri Lankan army is continuing to shell areas declared a “no fire zone,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement.“We receive reports of civilians being killed and wounded daily in the ‘no fire’ zone,...
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