The New York Times, By Neil MacFarquhar
27 April 2011
Western nations failed to secure the simplest of Security Council measures: a press statement calling on Syria’s leaders to stop the violence against their own people. (more…)
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SYRIA: Push in U.N. for Criticism of Syria Is Rejected
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Diplomacy, Middle-East, United Nations, tagged Security Council, Syria, UN, UN Security Council on April 28, 2011 |
SRI LANKA: UN to dispatch humanitarian team to Sri Lanka
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Military, NGOs, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Terrorists, United Nations, tagged Government, ICRC, innocent civilians, innocent victims, LTTE, Military, NGOs, rebels, Red Cross, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Security Council, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, Terrorists, UN, United Nations, UNSC, war victims on April 23, 2009 |
By By C. Bryson Hull, Reuters News
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said
on Thursday he was sending a humanitarian team to Sri Lanka’s war
zone, where thousands are trapped while troops push to end to a 25-
year war with Tamil Tiger rebels.
Ban’s decision came after the military said an exodus of 103,000
people from the tiny coastal strip had slowed, four days after troops
blew up an earthen barrier the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
built to stop them escaping. (more…)
SRI LANKA: Press Conference on Situation in Sri Lanka
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By The United Nations Department of Public Information
Representatives of four non-governmental organizations today called on the United Nations to speak out on the situation in northern Sri Lanka and urged the Security Council to take up the matter under the concept of “responsibility to protect”.
Speaking at a Headquarters press conference where they discussed the situation in and around the “no-fire zone” in northern Sri Lanka -– where Government forces are poised to overrun positions held by rebel fighters of the Liberation of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -– were Joseph Cornelius Donnelly of Caritas Internationalis; Anna Neistat of Human Rights Watch; Robert Templer of the International Crisis Group; and Nimmi Gowrinathan of Operation USA. James Traub of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect was available to answer questions. The press conference was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations.
SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan civilian casualties skyrocket: HRW
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Government, Gunfire, Military, NGOs, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, United Nations, tagged Civilian Casualties, Government, Hostages, innocent civilians, innocent victims, LTTE, NGOs, Security Council, Shells, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, Terrorists, UN, United Nations, UNSC, war victims on April 10, 2009 |
By The Associated Free Press
Civilian casualties are skyrocketing in Sri Lanka’s northeast as government forces push through with their final assault against Tamil rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
The New York-based watchdog urged the government to stop firing into an area designated as a “no-fire zone” packed with tens of thousands of trapped civilians and the remnants of the Tamil Tigers.
The HRW statement came after a pro-rebel website said that government shelling killed 129 non-combatants and wounded 282 more in the supposed safe area on Wednesday, a charge denied by the military.
SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan military captures last LTTE town
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Culture, Diplomacy, Foreign Aid, Government, Ground Assault, Health Care, History, India, Journalists, Military, NGOs, Police, Refugee Camps, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, United Nations, United States, tagged army, ceasefire, Government, IMF, India, innocent civilians, LTTE, Military, NGOs, no-fire zone, refugees, Security Council, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, supplies, Tamil Tigers, Terrorists, United Nations, United States, UNSC on April 7, 2009 |
By International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)
The Sri Lankan military announced on Sunday the capture of Puthukkudiyiruppu, the last remaining town controlled by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The battle is the latest in a string of defeats that have brought the LTTE to the brink of military collapse. The remaining LTTE fighters are now cornered in a government-declared no-fire zone—a strip of coastal land of about 17 square kilometres that is still under LTTE control.
Tens of thousands of civilian refugees are also crowded into the area, which, despite, government claims to the contrary, has been repeatedly subjected to army bombardment. Conditions inside the “no-fire zone” are appalling, with acute shortages of food, shelter and medicine. The military has allowed in only limited relief supplies.
