SINHALA GOVT KILLED: 2018 TAMIL CIVILIANS INCLUDING 700 CHILDREN IN 2 MONTHS !!!

Colombo killed 700 children in 2 months - LTTE Radio
[TamilNet, Monday, 02 March 2009, 11:36 GMT]

Voice of Tigers, the official radio of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam on Sunday said Sri Lankan armed forces have killed 2,018 Tamil civilians in January and February in Vanni and that 700 of the victims were children. The VoT has been airing a program, "Bridging the beloved" (U'ravup Paalam), where civilians have been providing details of their missing family members and whereabouts of the remaining members in the hope of locating their missed ones.

Some families were reporting that children as young as 5 years of age were missing during the artillery barrage by the Sri Lanka Army while they were displacing from a location to another. The radio broadcast has become a main source of information assisting people to find their kin and kith.

The US based Human Rights Watch, in its report issued on 20 February, have also put the civilian casualty figures at 2,000.

Newly obtained information places total civilian casualties at 7,000, with 2,000 deaths, the HRW said.

“During a three-week period from January 20 to February 13, 2009, independent observers in the Vanni collected information on 5,150 civilian casualties-1,123 deaths and 4,027 injuries-from the current fighting. This number was derived from a compilation of reports that recorded individual casualties, the date and place of the attack, and the nature of the attack," the HRW report stated.

Air attacks with cluster bombs, fire bombs and artillery barrage with cluster fitted shells have been systematically deployed by the Sri Lankan forces on civilian targets.


Chronology:

02.03.09 Colombo killed 700 children in 2 months - LTTE Rad..
28.02.09 Newborn babies bereft of milk, humanitarian situat..
27.02.09 Downed SLAF aircraft was engaged in carpet-bombing
24.02.09 Heavy fighting in PTK, civilians trapped in SLA ba..
24.02.09 Children vulnerable to SLA shelling in new 'safe z..
22.02.09 50 Tamil civilians killed, 130 wounded within 48 h..
21.02.09 13 civilians killed, 70 wounded in SLA barrage Fri..
21.02.09 SLA barrages Mullaiththeevu after Tiger air attack..
19.02.09 30 families wiped out in massive attack Wednesday,..
18.02.09 Massive air attack on civilian targets, scores kil..
18.02.09 SLA artillery fire hits new 'safety zone', 108 kil..
16.02.09 260 killed, SLA shells and boxes civilians, preven..
16.02.09 Colombo uses firebombs setting ablaze civilian tar..
14.02.09 75 feared killed in SLA shelling, elders home
13.02.09 Herding people by terror: Intense shelling, dead b..
10.02.09 Relentless shelling expels civilians from 'safety ..
08.02.09 80 killed, 200 wounded, carnage continues inside '..
08.02.09 More than 180 killed in Sri Lankan bombardment wit..
07.02.09 SLAF bombs Ponnampalam hospital, 61 patients kille..
05.02.09 SLA attacks 'safety zone' using short-range mortar..
05.02.09 Hospital attacked, 7 killed, dozens wounded
04.02.09 Deliberate massacre, not 'crossfire' killing Tamil..
04.02.09 Hillary Clinton, David Miliband urge to halt attac..
03.02.09 Gotabaya should be prosecuted for Genocide, war cr..
03.02.09 PTK hospital, legitimate military target - Gotabha..
02.02.09 SLAF bombers attack Vanni, deploy cluster bombs
02.02.09 Nurse killed in Udaiyaarkaddu hospital, ICRC staff..
02.02.09 More than 5,000 shells fired on 'safety zone', cas..
02.02.09 SLA fires MBRL rockets on IDP camp, several feared..
02.02.09 SLA shells PTK hospital, 9 killed, 15 wounded
01.02.09 Civilian casualties rise, SLA, SLAF attacks contin..
01.02.09 Shelling hits hospital, ICRC shocked
31.01.09 Artillery-fired cluster shells, aerial bombing on ..
31.01.09 SLA shelling continues on 'safety zone', Colombo r..
30.01.09 Only international-sponsored ceasefire can lead to..
29.01.09 Artillery barrage kills 44 civilians, 178 wounded ..
28.01.09 Brutal attack on civilians, assurance to Mukherjee..
28.01.09 46 more civilians killed Tuesday, few wounded surv..
28.01.09 Hospitals, ambulances hit by shelling, hundreds ki..
27.01.09 300,000 civilians face hunger, Colombo, abettors r..
27.01.09 Norway breaks silence, condemns war
27.01.09 Dead bodies decomposed beyond identification - med..
27.01.09 Artillery barrage continues on 'safety zone', no s..
26.01.09 Targeting civilians in safety zone, premeditated w..
26.01.09 'Biased UN official misleads humanity, safely sitt..
26.01.09 More than 1,000 wounded, Mullai RDHS urges IC to s..
26.01.09 TNA seeks IC to stop carnage, urges medical help t..
26.01.09 More than 300 civilians feared killed, people blee..
26.01.09 Does IC know no human dignity of civilians, asks a..
26.01.09 100 civilians feared killed, countless wounded, ar..
25.01.09 SLA shelling kills 22 civilians, wounds 60, target..
24.01.09 12 civilians killed, 87 wounded, SLA continues art..
23.01.09 'Safety zone' shelled again, 5 civilians killed, 8..
23.01.09 Artillery barrage continues, 3 killed, 33 wounded
22.01.09 2 medical staff wounded in artillery barrage on ho..
22.01.09 Military was provided with exact coordinates of ho..
22.01.09 Hospital bombed, 5 killed, 15 wounded
22.01.09 66 civilians killed within 3 days - Mullai RDHS
22.01.09 SLA attacks civilians in 'secure zone', several ki..
21.01.09 IC urged to act on humanitarian grounds to safegua..
20.01.09 Unprecedented civilian carnage in Vanni
18.01.09 Vanni civilians under deadly siege
18.01.09 Artillery barrage kills several civilians, dozens ..
18.01.09 Sri Lankan shelling kills 4 civilians, children am..
17.01.09 Catholic priests appeal to UN to intervene in Vann..
16.01.09 5 civilians killed, 7 injured in Sri Lankan artill..
16.01.09 Jaffna Bishop urges SL President to stop bombardme..
16.01.09 Humanitarian tragedy in Vanni enters deadlier phas..
16.01.09 "Which norms of liberal democracy preclude IC atte..
13.01.09 Doctors call for attack free zones surrounding dis..
13.01.09 Humanitarian tragedy unfolds in Vanni

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