New satellite imagery contradictory: HRW
NEW YORK: New satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts contradict Sri Lanka's claims that its armed forces are no longer using heavy weapons in the densely populated conflict area in northern part of the island nation, a leading international human rights group said today.
In a new report, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said local sources have reported that more than 400 civilians have been killed and over 1,000 wounded since May 9 as a result of artillery attacks on the thin coastal strip where fighting continues between government forces and the LTTE.
"Recent satellite photos and witness accounts show the brutal shelling of civilians in the conflict area goes on," said Brad Adams, Asia Director at Human Rights Watch.
"Neither the Sri Lankan army nor the Tamil Tigers appear to have any reluctance in using civilians as cannon fodder."
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) today issued a preliminary analysis of commercial high-resolution satellite imagery of the conflict zone that shows craters from the use of heavy weapons and the removal of thousands of likely structures used by internally displaced persons (IDPs) between May 6 and May 10.
The AAAS found that it was "certainly unlikely that the IDPs would have moved en masse, and so completely without a compelling reason."
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