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Sri Lanka's
State Terror in Streaming Video: -
The White Van -
Vaharai Tamil Refugees
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Tear Drops
  
Sri Lanka
Army DPU Claymore Mine attack on Civilians, 29 January 2008
"gruesome, terrorist
attack by a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) on a
civilian bus travelling to Paalampiddi from
Madhu at 2:25 on 29 January 2008. The
attack killed 20 people, 11 of whom school children, and injured 14,
eight of whom were children."
 
Padahuthurai, 2 January 2007
"The education of children in the Northern and Eastern provinces
remains a foremost priority of the Government." Sri Lanka Government Peace
Secretariat, 6 March 2007
 
Killinochchi,
2 November 2006
"On 2 November 2006, scarcely three days after
Sri Lanka's pledge in
Geneva that it will not launch any military offensive, the
Sri
Lankan air force launched an attack on the town of Killinochchi which lies in the area of control of the LTTE within lines of
control recognised by the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement."
 
Vaharai
8 November 2006
"scores of civilians were killed
Wednesday around 11:35 a.m. when Sri Lanka Army fired Multi-Barrel
Rockets and artillery shells targeting Kathiraveli, a coastal hamlet 15
km north of Vaaharai, hit a school where five thousand Internally
Displaced People had sought refuge. 40 dead bodies have been recovered.
Six babies below 6-month were killed, said medical sources stating that
30 dead bodies had been brought to Vaaharai hospital. SLMM officials and
the ICRC visited the area where more than 120 houses were severely
damaged. An area with 2 km perimeter was indiscriminately bombed. 60
severely wounded civilians were brought to Valaichenai hospital. 2
civilians succumbed to their wounds while being transferred to
Valaichenai."
 
Vallipunam, 14 August 2006
in Streaming Video
"Sixty-three schoolgirls in children's home, killed in
airstrike,
screamed headlines on websites,
mind goes numb and blank and suddenly the world makes no sense
when children's lives are snuffed out with such cruelty and ease..."
Muthur,
5 August 2006
"...security forces had been present in Muttur at the
time of the killings... the government had prevented the
truce monitors from going to the crime scene to
investigate immediately after the discovery of the
bodies and ...confidential conversations with highly
reliable sources had pointed to the culpability of
security forces... The Security Forces of Sri Lanka are
widely and consistently deemed to be responsible for the
incident... the killings are one of the most serious
recent crimes against humanitarian aid workers
worldwide..."
Sri Lanka
Monitoring Mission, 30 August 2006
  
Pessalai, 19 June
2006
"
Today we buried the six Tamil civilians [Manaval Claramma Leela (75, Jesuthasan Jude Nixon
(23), Cyrilappar St.Jude
(22)
Turairaja Vijekumar
(39), Kodalingham Linganathan
(20), Abdul Raheem Latheep
(28) Mary Medaline
(27)] murdered by the (Sri Lanka) Navy at Pesalai yesterday by
shooting them through their mouths and blowing off their heads and I
spoke of Jesus Christ cruelly crucified and his Eternal words “Father
forgive them for they do not know what they do”.
 
Vankalai
- 8 June 2006
"SLA soldiers armed with bayonets and
knives entered the house of a family of four and slaughtered 35-year-old
father, 27-year-old mother, 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son
Thursday midnight in Vankalai, 12 km southeast of Mannar."
 
Muthur, 25 April
2006
      
Welikande/Batticaloa,
20 January 2006
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