INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA
The Charge is Ethnic Cleansing
SRI LANKA AIRFORCE
BOMBS SCHOOLS IN JAFFNA
- November/December 1993
On Friday, 26
November Sri Lanka Airforce jet dropped two bombs at
Kalasalai Road in Thirunelvely. The houses of Sivapatham
and Vijayaratnam were badly damaged.
Immediately after this attack the supersonic jet
targeted the Sri Ramakrishna Saratha Ladies College in
Kokuvil. The Vice Principal of the school , Mrs.
T.Sri Pathmanathan, a teacher and some students, six in
all, were injured. The Science laboratory was
damaged.
The Principal of the college told reporters that when
the sound of the plane was heard, the teachers and
children rushed out of the school building to take
shelter underneath nearby trees. The teachers and
students who were the last to rush out were injured.
On Thursday 30 December 1993, Sri Lanka Air
Force planes attacked Drieberg's College in
Chavakacheri which is the oldest English School in
Thenmaradachy. The Principal's office and a number of
other school buildings were badly damaged.
At about 11 a.m. on Friday, 7 January 1994, a
Sri Lankan helicopter fired many rounds from 50 calibre
guns on the Atchuvely Maha Vidyalayam. The school was in
session at the time of the attack. As the helicopter
launched its attack, there was pandemonium - students and
teachers ran to find shelter. Many of the school
buildings were damaged. A bullet pierced the leg of a GCE
(0/L) girl student named M.Rameenarani. She was taken to
the Jaffna Hospital.(Network, published by the
International Federation of Tamils, January 1994)
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