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More civilians escape from LTTE area to Government contolled area

by israeli.agent | April 16, 2009 at 08:06 am

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As fight between LTTE terrorists and Sri Lankan Army intensify, more civilians are escaping from the no fire zone controlled by LTTE to the Government control area.The 48 hour halt on Sri Lanka's firing againt LTTE did not yeald much result as the terrorists coninue to prevent civilians from leaving them. Civilian human shield is the only protection of batterd LTTE cadres against the Sri Lankan army as of now. It is believed that the LTTE leader Prabhakaran is hiding behind the civilians.

COLOMBO, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The military in Sri Lanka said 135 civilians fled the No Fire Zone (NFZ) controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels in the north to the area controlled by the security forces on Wednesday, the first day after the ending of a two-day truce declared by the government.

The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that 42 men, 38 women and 55 children escaped from Puttumatalan and Valayarmadam areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and sought protection with 58th Division troops operating in the general area of Ampalavanpokkanai.

On Tuesday, 239 civilians escaped from the NFZ to government controlled area, said the ministry.

Meanwhile, military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara told reporters on Wednesday that the troops are observing the NFZ after the two-day government called truce came to an end at midnight of Tuesday.

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at 08:15 on April 16th, 2009

UK and France Condemned LTTE for not allowing civilians to escape.

NY Times, April 16, 2009. PARIS — Britain and France issued on Thursday a strongly worded criticism of the Tamil Tiger rebels for preventing civilians from leaving the small conflict zone in the north east of Sri Lanka.

“It is clear that the L.T.T.E. have been forcefully preventing civilians from leaving the conflict area and we deplore their determination to use civilians as a human shield,” the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, said in a joint statement.