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Sri Lankan army attack -Civilian casualties grown exponentially
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by senthil5000 | April 20, 2009 at 06:35 pm
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20-Apr-2009:
Sri Lankan army attacked in safety zone today killing more than 1500 civilians and injured 3500. The Sri Lankan army took hostages of more than 1500 people from the government controlled area and started this attack in early morning 2.00 AM. The attack included banned weapons like cluster bombs, fire bombs and phosphorous bombs which caused the huge civilian casualties.
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Hundreds of dead bodies and wounded civilians were still lying in Maaththa'lan and Pokka'nai, and more than 600 seriously wounded have been brought to a makeshift hospital functioning at a school in Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal in LTTE held area throughout Monday, TamilNet correspondent reports from Vanni. The correspondent personally witnessed nearly 300 dead bodies while fleeing from the area. Cluster shells and smoke or white-dust-emitting shells that made people to faint were widely deployed on civilians by the Sri Lanka Army in its effort to capture them. However, a large majority of the civilians fled towards LTTE held areas while around 8,000 were trapped and captured by the SLA.
The Sri Lanka Army that took hostages of around 1500 people who left for government controlled areas on the previous night and using them as human shields moved in to safe zone in the cover of the darkness by around 2:00 AM on Monday. The shelling was intensified by then and they were firing cluster bombs, gas bombs and phosphorous bombs inside civilian areas.
Tamil National Reporter speaking to us said the gas bombs emanate white smoke that creates nausea. After smoking that people were fainted for more than one and a half hours. People suspect the purpose of this bomb is to capture people alive and to take hostage of them to prove people are forcibly detained by LTTE and they have freed them.
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at 18:55 on April 20th, 2009
This is how Srilankan Government save tamil people.
This is what so called Rescue Operation
This is what LTTE capture Tamil as human shield.
This is what Rajapakse says fighting against terrorism.
Oh my god , please save our Tamil peoples.
at 19:15 on April 20th, 2009
at 19:32 on April 20th, 2009
United nations lost its crediblity long back. It can only issue statements that will keep sri lankan govt happy or else they will be thrown out like the aid agencies and media people. After all their own staffs are in detention camp and have no free movement.
at 21:03 on April 20th, 2009
The statement said, " The Secretary-General welcomes the escape by tens of thousands of civilians from the conflict zone in North Eastern Sri Lanka over the last three days."
its quite pity even UN don't understand our problem. When SLA flights bomb us in people's head , whether they will stand still or they will run away where there is way ? The Bombs of SLA threatens civilians if you are not coming out of LTTE , you will be killed. Actually , this is the exact meaning of Terrorism. SLA Terror.
When 1000s of people died in single day , it clearly indicates what SLA want to achieve from the war. We all understood , the world too!
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Velupillai_Prabhakaran (not verified)at 05:34 on April 21st, 2009
Wanakkam everyone... you'll don't have to start another war online...
I have to admit that MY PEOPLE are so lame, that they don’t realize we LTTE kill our own people to get the international attention to our side. it is funny to see that LTTE supporters organize rallies in different part of the world for the betterment of MY FAMILY. All I did was, support my own family (NOT LTTE) from the donations i received from various parts of the world.
Now the truth is out there... Check the links
English version- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfmZtbBRgzA
LTTE's Suicide Boat Factory in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Thailand -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARaCE3IQbvg&feature=related
Toronto Rally - http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/01/28/8171246-sun.html#/news/torontoandgta/2009/01/27/pf-8169156.html NY Rally - http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/nycondeadline/2009/03/20/tamil-americans-protest-sri-lankan-mission-in-nyc/ Bending to Pres Obama - http://www.tamilsforobama.com/ and many more……at 19:55 on April 20th, 2009
"United nations lost its crediblity long back. It can only issue statements that will keep sri lankan govt happy or else they will be thrown out like the aid agencies and media people. After all their own staffs are in detention camp and have no free movement. "
So you dont want UN there, right?. Only "independent" media and "foreign" aid workers.
.Agent.
at 21:05 on April 20th, 2009
So you dont want UN there, right?. Only "independent" media and "foreign" aid workers.
.Agent.
When independant media is available , UN will get exact situation in vanni . Now what government controlled media says UN Listen.
at 21:16 on April 20th, 2009
Kalangalan,
I like the display picture of yours. Thiruvalluvar, right?
.Agent.
at 19:47 on April 20th, 2009
Were you sleeping when the LTTE suicide blast happened , yesterday whole world saw how the LTTE shooting fleeing civilians. Still u r telling falls, Please atleast now except your falls and try to assist those innocents as they are now on to save there lives.
at 19:59 on April 20th, 2009
Everyone at Sri Lanka were sleeping when sri lankan army started the attack at early morning 2 AM Monday. The LTTE shooting civilians is a false probaganda by sri lanka to save its name which got spoiled long back by its ruthless attacks. Unless independent medias are allowed to report this probaganda cannot be verified.
at 20:22 on April 20th, 2009
I have add some pictures to ur story,, hope at least now u can see who shoot who, if u did not see. Please see the BBC for more profe because u always depend on international media. So u can see it how international media report this rescue. The pictures and vedios u put is the people who shot by LTTE and then shown to world. Still the sam old thoery and friend that want work any more. Wolrd is well known yesterday how the LTTE show there own way of treat to this innocents people.
at 20:31 on April 20th, 2009
The ctrl+c and ctrl+v technique, Chanaka.
No one in Tamilnet know that this does not work anymore.
.Agent.
at 21:48 on April 20th, 2009
BBC was not reporting from the war zone. All medias are getting news from sri lankan govt. So it is same as sri lankan govt news. Neither your footage nor mine has any indication of LTTE shooting civilians. since there is no independant media we need to belive the news sources whichever is issuing. But the intention of sri lankan govt to ban the media very well puts itself in a suspecious position. Any news from such suspect is obviously not reliable.