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More tamils reported dead in Sri Lanka's 'no-fire zone'
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by Tranroy | April 10, 2009 at 08:45 pm
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Heavy shelling by the Sri Lankan army of a designated safe area has left 129 civilians dead and 282 wounded
Sri lankan government forces pounded the area on the northeast coast throughout Wednesday, hitting sites including a child nutrition centre. It said the attack was the single "most cruel carnage" by the army in months of fighting.
At least 128 civilians have died and more than 700 have been injured in three days of shelling in the last remaining pocket of Tamil Tiger resistance in Sri Lanka, according to reports from inside the "no-fire zone".
The deaths came as the Sri Lankan military announced that operations to free tens of thousands of trapped civilians had entered their final stage.
Reports of the latest casualties were compiled by Human Rights Watch, which said it had spoken to doctors working inside the coastal strip covering eight square miles (2,000 ha) where the UN estimates about 100,000 civilians are trapped.
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at 22:18 on April 10th, 2009
The specialitiy of these attacks are even if huge number of civilians are killed, no countries has guts to open its mouth. May be the countries didn't bother because the people who died are different color. There is no good reason for united nations to exist in this world. They can better change their name to Dump nations !!