SLA attacks hospital, 47 massacred: Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired artillery shells killing at least 47 civilians, patients and the Administrative Officer K. Tharmakulasingam Tuesday morning around 8:00 a.m. At least 55 patients sustained serious injuries in the attack on the makeshift hospital which was functioning at Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal junior school. The attack came while around 2,000 wounded patients within the last 3 days were waiting for the ICRC to be transported in the ship. More than 2,600 civilians were killed within the past 3 days in Sri Lankan attacks in Vanni. Click here to read full article
Vanni elderly IDPs die in Vavuniyaa: The number of deaths among elderly persons in Vavuniyaa IDP camp is on the increase. From May 1 till May 11, sixty-one elderly persons had died due to natural causes. Their bodies have been lying in the mortuary of the Vavuniyaa general hospital awaiting relatives to identify them, sources in Vavuniyaa said. Click here to read full article
White House protest accuses Sri Lanka of civilian massacre: More than two hundred American Tamils protested in front of the White House in the Lafayette `Park Monday 9:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m., accusing the Government of Sri Lanka for slaughtering more than 3000 Tamil civilians crowded into a 5 sq.km. area during Saturday night and Sunday with the use of heavy weapons including multi-barrel artillery directed into the Safety Zone. Holding banners displaying “Stop the Genocide,” the protesters called on President Obama to lead an international effort to establish a ceasefire between the two adversaries, Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers.
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US violates Geneva Convention by permitting Sri Lanka to commit slow-motion genocide – Prof. Boyle: Pointing to the statement issued by the U.S. Department of State that after an informal meeting at the United Nations that “[t]he United States is deeply concerned by the continued unacceptably high levels of civilian casualties,” expert in International Law, Professor Francis A. Boyle said, the Obama administration is violating the 1948 convention for continuing to give “green light” to the Government of Sri Lanka to destroy the LTTE no matter what the cost to innocent Tamil civilians. Lawrence Christy, the head of Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) Field Office on Monday put the death toll of civilians at more than 3,200 killed during the weekend. Click here to read full article
RSF condemn’s Channel 4 journalists expulsion: Referring to the expulsion of British Channel 4’s three journalists from Sri Lanka for exposing “atrocious living conditions for [Tamil] civilians [in Vavuniyaa internment camps] and ill-treatment they have suffered” Reporters without Borders (RSF), the Paris-based media watchdog, said in a press release issued Monday that the reasons for expulsions are “unfounded and unacceptable” and that the expulsion is the “latest incident in a long list of serious press freedom violations connected with reporting of the war, including murders of journalists, arbitrary or abusive imprisonment, torture, ill-treatment, censorship and expulsions.” Click here to read full article
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