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Starvation among Tamil kids. GOSL denies food supply!
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by B12N | May 3, 2009 at 02:52 am
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Colombo deliberately blocking food to Tamils.
Another way of government to kill the tens of thousands people caught up in the war-zone.
Health officials in Vanni report that several children faint from hunger within the so-called safety zone every day. Deliberate denial of food by Colombo, especially milk powder for children, have caused severe malnutrition and starvation as local media reported at least 9 starvation deaths in recent days.
The ICRC is still waiting for Colombo's cooperation in bringing in supply ship.
Government only sent 60 MT food supplies after 02 April. 2,475 MT supplies are needed for a month for 165,000 civilians according to World Food Programme (WFP).
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at 03:20 on May 3rd, 2009
I am no supporter of the way the SL government id tackoing the conflict. But you don't say who has decided the denial of food is deliberate! Incompetent maybe, yet to say it is deliberate - surely you need to back up this claim with some water-tight evidence.