Posted in Air Strike, Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Gunfire, Hostages, Military, NGOs, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, United Nations, tagged air strikes, airstrikes, bombs, ceasefire, Civilian Casualties, Government, Gunfire, Hostages, hunger strike, innocent civilians, innocent victims, LTTE, Military, NGOs, rebels, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, Terrorists, UN, United Nations, war victims on April 27, 2009 |
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Health Care, NGOs, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, United Nations, tagged Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, healthcare, ICRC, innocent civilians, innocent victims, International Committee for the Red Cross, NGOs, Red Cross, report, sanitation, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, UN, United Nations, UNOCHA, war victims, water on April 27, 2009 |
By UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
This report was issued by OCHA Headquarters. It covers the period from 24
to 27 April 2009. The next report will be issued on or around 28 April.
Highlights
There has been an increase of some
40,000 internally displaced persons
(IDPs) over the past few days, bringing
the total to over 150,000 IDPs in the
IDP camps in Vavuniya, Jaffna, Mannar
and Trincomalee. UN estimates that
50,000 people still trapped in the
conflict zone.
(more…)
Posted in Chemical Weapons, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Foreign Aid, Government, Health Care, Military, Mortars, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, tagged civilian injuries, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, cyanide, Government, guerrillas, healthcare, human shields, innocent civilians, innocent victims, LTTE, Military, Mortars, NGOs, Shells, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, Terrorists, war victims on April 26, 2009 |
By The Sunday Times
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Tamil girl with a severe leg injury was sharing a hospital bed yesterday with her elder sister, who had burns to her face. Their mother was dead and their father was in intensive care with a 50% chance of survival.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Diplomacy, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Health Care, Hostages, Insurgents, Journalists, Military, NGOs, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, United Nations, tagged army, cease-fire, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, foreing aid, Government, healthcare, Hostages, hunger, innocent civilians, innocent victims, insurgency, Insurgents, Journalists, LTTE, Military, Navy, NGOs, offensive, rebels, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, starvation, Tamil Tigers, Terrorists, UN, United Nations, war victims on April 26, 2009 |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Facing imminent battlefield defeat, Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels declared a unilateral cease-fire Sunday and called on the government to halt its offensive to spare the tens of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting.
The government rejected the appeal and accused the rebels of playing for time as the military stands poised to rout them and end the separatist war that has plagued this Indian Ocean island nation for a quarter century.
Posted in Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Clusters/Mines, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Foreign Aid, Gunfire, Health Care, NGOs, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, tagged bombs, civilian deaths, civilian injuries, Gunfire, healthcare, innocent civilians, innocent victims, landmines, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, war victims on April 25, 2009 |
By The Guardian
Paul McMaster works as a Médecins Sans Frontières surgeon in Vavuniya hospital. This is an excerpt from his diary:
Wednesday 4.45am Woke up and started operating. A 15-year-old boy with severe blast injuries to his abdomen. He was on his own and in shock. Surgery took about two and a half hours and he was reasonably stable. The last I heard, at least, he was stable. But our concern is what happens to him now. This is a hospital with 450 beds, three intensive care beds, and we now have 1,700 patients with up to 50 coming in a day. There are patients on the floor, in the corridors, even outside. This boy is going to be on the floor. Infection is the main worry. The wounded take days to get to us by bus and infection has often set in by the time they get here. Many of them are dying on the buses that bring them, and the bodies are taken off along with the living.
