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  INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA
The Charge is Ethnic Cleansing
 200
TAMILS CIVILIANS KILLED IN AIR
AND NAVY ATTACKS IN 1993 ALONE
Government must
take responsibility for the actions of their agents and
deny them immunity…
''... Sri Lankan military authorities say the (Kilali
ferry) crossing is illegal and travellers will be shot on
sight. Over 200 have been killed in air and navy attacks
this year. In one attack in January which killed 50, a
man feigned death while sailors boarded boats mutilating
dead bodies to steal jewellery. Another 17 people drowned
in August when their boat capsized during shelling.
Defence sources in Colombo usually describe the attacks
as clashes with the LTTE.''
Sri Lankan Presidential Adviser Bradman Weerakoon in
Geneva recently for an International Conference on the
Protection of War Victims eloquently insisted that
governments must take responsibility for the actions of
their agents and deny them immunity. He said nothing
however about Kilali.'' -(British Refugee Council
Publication, Sri Lanka Monitor, September 1993)
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