Sri Lankan govt deliberately killed innocent civilians Print E-mail
Friday, 29 April 2011 13:12
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By Sunny

 

Via Sepia Mutiny this big story is in the New York Times today: A United Nations panel investigating allegations of war crimes by Sri Lankan troops at the end of the bloody battle against Tamil rebels in May 2009 found that there was credible evidence that government soldiers had targeted civilians, shelled hospitals and attacked humanitarian workers, according to a leaked copy of the panel’s report.     

 

 

Originally published by Pickled Politics

 

The fact that its been published in a Sri Lankan newspaper means more internal strife and accusations. It also vindicates many of Tamils who congregated in Westminster last year saying that innocent civilians were being killed in Sri Lanka.

 

Channel 4 News reported on this last night too, extensively. They called it Sri Lanka’s “Srebrenica moment”.

 

The UN is also criticised in the reporting for failing “to take actions that might have protected civilians.” The panel says casualty figures collected by the UN should have been made public at the time.

 

Releasing casualty figures isn’t enough. Why was the world happy to sit by and watch while this was going on, and ignore the pleas of Tamils everywhere to intervene?

Last Updated on Friday, 17 June 2011 03:30
 

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