Related: Sri Lanka: Case Study in MSM Propaganda
Sri Lanka: The Slaughter the World Watched
Read It To Believe It: Israel's Ties in Sri Lanka
"Israel continues to supply Sri Lanka with arms and excessive military training even after the United States and Britain stop endowing military supplies to Sri Lanka over the government’s human rights violations. Why aren’t we hearing about this in the media?"
Why am I not the least bit surprised by that last one?
"Sri Lankan Army, rebels trade blame for attack; 378 civilians reported killed in shelling" by Mark Magnier and Mian Ridge, Los Angeles Times | May 11, 2009
Victims of an artillery attack in a Tamil section of Sri Lanka waited outside a makeshift hospital in Mullivaaykaal yesterday. (Associated Press)
NEW DELHI - The Sri Lankan military and rebels traded blame yesterday for an artillery attack that reportedly killed hundreds of civilians, with the army accusing the encircled Tamil Tigers of launching the assault to press authorities for a truce and the guerrillas saying the deaths were further evidence of government atrocities.
The attack took place late Saturday and early yesterday, when artillery shells were reportedly lobbed into a densely packed area of northern Sri Lanka, resulting in at least 378 civilian deaths, according to the rebels.
"The LTTE fired mortars indiscriminately into this place," Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, an army spokesman, said yesterday, referring to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels. "They fire indiscriminately at civilians because it's the only weapon left them. And they may be forcing doctors to give these kinds of statements."
TamilNet.com, a pro-Tamil website, accused the government forces of carrying out the artillery barrage. Citing medical sources, it said the shelling killed at least 378 people and wounded 814. "More than 2,000 innocent civilians have been killed in the last 24 hours," it said, quoting Selvarajah Pathmanathan, the rebels' foreign-relations intermediary and longtime weapons smuggler wanted by Interpol.
If you viewed my links you understand the prism the Zionist MSM generally takes -- and they are doing it again.
This, it said, amounts to "state terrorism and a war crime."
Yeah, they seem to get away with it though. Amazing, isn't it?
Bitter accusations, propaganda, and a lack of credible information have been longstanding features of this conflict. Citing safety concerns, the army has severely restricted access into the area by media or humanitarian groups - both of which it has at times accused of being sympathizers to the Tigers.
The Tigers, accused of numerous human-rights violations, rarely have allowed media access to areas they control. The United States and the European Union have labeled them terrorists, while the United Nations has accused the group of using civilians as human shields.
Yesterday, the government deported three journalists from Britain's Channel 4 on charges that their stories were "tarnishing the image of the country." Channel 4 broadcast a report last week quoting what it said were Tamil aid workers inside one of the humanitarian camps for war-displaced people saying that the refugees were underfed and mistreated and that some of the women were sexually abused.
Kicked out for telling the truth, huh?
These guys are just like the Israelis! They learned their lessons well.
The government called the report Tiger propaganda, adding that the camps were considered largely up to international standards by UN and foreign officials. The civil war has raged since 1983. The Tigers seek an independent homeland for ethnic Tamils marginalized in Sinhalese-majority Sri Lanka.
Notice how they rarely mention the religious dynamic here?
The "ethnic Tamil Hindu and Christian minorities, who claim decades of economic and racial discrimination at the hands of the governments controlled by the Buddhist Sinhalese majority?"
And CUI BONO when HINDUS and CHRISTIANS are under attack (forget the Buddhist angle for a minute and think Muslims for a second; WHO BENEFITS)?
After years of relative stalemate, the army recently made dramatic advances and now has the Tigers trapped in a 2-square-mile area on the island's northern coast surrounded by 50,000 troops.
That thing gets smaller all the time -- or so we are told. Army said this would be over months ago.
Foreign governments and UN agencies have repeatedly asked the government to halt the hostilities so that noncombatants trapped in the sliver of land can reach safety. But the army argues that any halt would allow the rebels to escape or regroup....
Thileepan Parthipan, a spokesman for the LTTE, who spoke by telephone from what he said was a bunker, denied the Tigers were using civilians as human shields. "You should realize, these are our own mothers, brothers, wives," he said....
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"UN condemns 'bloodbath' as death toll mounts in Sri Lankan war" by Associated Press | May 12, 2009
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Volunteers dug mass graves in the marshes of Sri Lanka's northern war zone yesterday as they buried hundreds of civilians killed in artillery attacks the United Nations characterized as a "bloodbath."
A doctor in the war zone said up to 1,000 civilians may have been killed in two days of shelling that marked some of the worst violence in this Indian Ocean island nation since the civil war flared up again more than three years ago. With the civilian death toll skyrocketing, the Tamil Tiger rebels and a coalition of international human rights groups separately called for the UN Security Council to urgently hold talks on the conflict. But with several nations protesting such talks, that seemed unlikely.
Who in the world (Israel?) would be protesting talks?
The government and the separatist rebels both denied responsibility for the artillery attacks that struck the tiny sliver of northeast coast still held by the rebels in two waves. The worst barrage pounded the area from Saturday night until Sunday morning, health officials said. Another attack hit the area overnight Sunday, landing in a newly demarcated "safe zone" where the government had urged civilians to gather, according to Dr. V. Shanmugarajah, who works at a makeshift hospital in the area.
A total of 430 ethnic Tamil civilians, including 106 children, were either brought to the hospital for burial or died at the facility, he said. More than 1,300 wounded came to the hospital as well, he said. But, he said, the death toll was likely far higher because many of those killed would have been buried in the bunkers where they were slain, and many of the gravely wounded never made it to the hospital for treatment. "There were many who died without medical attention," Shanmugarajah said. "Seeing the number of wounded, and from what the people tell me, I estimate the death toll to be around 1,000."
Volunteers dug mass graves in the marsh near the hospital, putting 50 to 60 bodies in each pit, he said. One of the hospital's nurses was killed along with his family as they sheltered from the onslaught in a trench that was then filled with soil and turned into their grave, he said.
Oh my Lord they were BURIED ALIVE!!!!!!!
"The UN has consistently warned against the bloodbath scenario as we've watched the steady increase in civilian deaths over the last few months," UN spokesman Gordon Weiss said. In Washington, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly expressed deep concern. "We think that there's an unacceptably high level of civilian casualties," he told reporters.
UN figures compiled last month showed that nearly 6,500 civilians had been killed in three months this year as the government drove the separatist rebels from their northern strongholds.
I notice they rarely tell 70,000 have been killed in total -- mostly Tamils.
And you know what, U.N.?
As we say here in America, either SHIT or GET OFF the POT!!!!!!
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And it is true.
These guys are as bad -- if not worse, fer Heaven's sake -- in shelling hospitals on a daily basis!!!!!
A displaced Tamil woman walked with her child among the tents in a guarded camp. (Pedro Ugarte/Afp/Getty Images)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A mortar shell slammed into a crowd of wounded civilians waiting for treatment at the only medical facility left in Sri Lanka's war zone yesterday, killing 49 people in the third day of intense shelling in the area, health officials said.
The Tamil Tiger rebels blamed the government for the attack - the second deadly strike on the hospital this month - and called on the international community to push for an immediate cease-fire. Sri Lankan officials denied responsibility, saying they had ceased using artillery and mortars weeks ago.
And why should we believe them?
But the UN humanitarian chief said there was evidence the government was still using heavy weapons, despite the estimated 50,000 civilians stuck in the tiny coastal strip still under rebel control. The Red Cross said a ferry filled with aid had to turn back because of fighting.
You know, when the RED CROSS is THREATENED something is SERIOUSLY AWRY!!!!!!
Pressing ahead with the offensive, government forces broke through a sand fortification, killed dozens of insurgents and advanced to the edge of the "safe zone" where the government had told the civilians in the war zone to gather, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
Why does the image of CONCENTRATION CAMPS spring into my mind?
See: Sri Lankan Op and Ed
The early-morning attack on the makeshift hospital's admissions ward - little more than a tin roof and blue tarp walls - came after a weekend of artillery barrages that killed as many as 1,000 civilians, according to hospital officials.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Artillery shells tore through a hospital packed with wounded civilians in Sri Lanka's war zone for a second day yesterday, killing at least 50 people, setting an ambulance ablaze, and forcing the medical staff to huddle in bunkers for safety, doctors said.
This is BUTCHERY!!! Yeah, NEVER AGAIN, my fart poot!!!!
Where are the CALLS for WAR CRIMES?
Health workers at the makeshift medical facility said they were so overwhelmed by the crush of the wounded and the unrelenting shelling of the area they could do little but give gauze and bandages to the roughly 1,000 patients waiting for treatment. The strike on the hospital came as the government marched on with its offensive to destroy the reeling Tamil Tiger rebels and end their quarter-decade quest for a separate homeland.
Those wishes deserve this, huh?
Oh, let's hope that karma repays these Buddhist apostates.
There has been a wave of artillery bombardments across the war zone that began over the weekend and has barely let up in five days, health workers said. The weekend attacks alone may have killed as many as 1,000 people, doctors said. The government says its troops are not responsible for the shelling and that the military has not fired heavy weapons in the area in weeks.
But Human Rights Watch says satellite images and witness testimony contradict that claim and has accused both sides of using the estimated 50,000 civilians packed into the tiny coastal strip controlled by the rebels as "cannon fodder."
Oh, another government lied; what an absolute stunner.
The shelling was so intense yesterday that a Red Cross ferry waiting off the coast to deliver food aid and evacuate the wounded had to turn back for a second day, the agency said.
Like the Gaza aid ships Israel turns back?
President Obama called yesterday for an end to the violence and for steps to alleviate civilian suffering. Obama yesterday called on Sri Lanka's government to "stop the indiscriminate shelling" that has killed hundreds of civilians and allow UN humanitarian teams access to war-wounded.
Hey, Obama, WHERE YA' BEEN?
He also called on the Tamil rebels to lay down their weapons and release civilian captives. He said the situation was a humanitarian crisis that could turn into a catastrophe.
It already is a catastrophe!! A mass-murdering, genocidal catastrophe!
Two artillery shells hit the medical facility about 1 p.m., slamming into an administrative office and a ward filled with patients wounded by previous shellings, said Dr. V. Shanmugarajah.
Dr. Thurairaja Varatharajah, the top health official in the war zone, said the attack killed at least 50 people, including patients, relatives and a health aide, and wounded about 60 others.--more--"
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