Posted in Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Government, Health Care, Internal Displaced Persons, Military, NGOs, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, United Nations, tagged Civilian Casualties, doctors, eyewitness, IDPs, injured civilians, LTTE, malnutrition, no-fire zone, Sri Lankan government, Sri Lankan military, Tamils on June 1, 2010 |
One year after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, one of the Indian doctors who treated Tamil refugees during the last months of the conflict says there were “massive casualties” among the civilian population. (more…)
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Fact Finding, Foreign Aid, Government, Health Care, History, Internal Displaced Persons, Military, NGOs, Property Damage, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Terrorists, United Nations, tagged clearing, ECHO, Foreign Aid, funds, humanitarian crisis, humanitarian relief, international donors, landmines, rebuilding, return, Sri Lankan military on May 31, 2010 |
31 May 2010 11:33:00 GMT
I was last in Sri Lanka’s capital city, Colombo, almost a year after India’s Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had been assassinated by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber. 1992 was still a fraught year in Sri Lanka’s civil war.
On-going hostilities between the government and the rebels in the north, thousands killed and displaced by the conflict, a naval commander killed by suicide bombers and senior army officials killed in a land mine explosion. (more…)
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Clusters/Mines, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, Military, NGOs, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized, United Nations, tagged Children casualties, clearing, demining, donor aid, IDPs, injured, landmines, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan military, Swiss Foundation for Mine Action, UNDP on May 28, 2010 |
COLOMBO, 28 May 2010 (IRIN) – The recent death of a French de-miner in northern Sri Lanka highlights the ongoing threat of landmines in preventing the safe return of tens of thousands of conflict-displaced.
Dominique Morin, who worked for the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action, was killed on 10 May when a device he was handling exploded in the village of Kakkayankulam West, in eastern Mannar District. (more…)
Posted in Actors, Civilian Casualties, Country, Displacement, Government, Insurgents, Mortars, Region, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Tactics, Type of Harm, tagged Civilian Casualties, disabled, Handicap International, IDPs, internally displaced people, Mortar Shells, Refugee Camps, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan military on June 6, 2009 |
The Daily Telegraph
By DEAN NELSON
Up to 30,000 Tamil civilians have been left severely disabled by Sri Lankan army shelling in the so-called ‘no-fire zone’, it has been revealed.
Aid workers said one in ten of the 280,000 civilian refugees who fled the Sri Lankan army’s final onslaught against the Tamil Tiger rebels had either lost limbs or been so badly injured they urgently needed prosthetic limbs or wheelchairs to regain their mobility.
The scale of civilian casualties who have been maimed in the war was disclosed by the award-winning French charity Handicap International, which works with the victims of war throughout the world. (more…)
Posted in Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Displacement, Government, Gunfire, Mortars, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Terrorists, tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian death toll, civilian deaths, IDP camps, LTTE, Manik Farm, no-fire zone, Refugee Camps, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan military, Tamil Tigers on June 1, 2009 |
The Washington Post
By EMILY WAX
NORTHEASTERN COAST, Sri Lanka — The strip of beach where tens of thousands of civilians huddled during the Sri Lankan military’s decisive assault against the Tamil Tiger rebels this month shows clear signs of heavy artillery shelling, according to a helicopter inspection of the site by independent journalists, interviews with eyewitnesses, and specialists who have studied high-resolution satellite imagery from the war zone.
That evidence contradicts government assertions that areas of heavy civilian populations were no-fire zones that were deliberately spared during the final weeks of military assault that ended this island nation’s quarter-century of civil war.
“We see a lot of images of destroyed structures and what look like circular shell craters and also, frankly, very large holes in the ground. If it was a shell, it must be a very large one to make 24-feet-wide craters,” said Lars Bromley, director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights project, which was asked by human rights groups to study the satellite images. (more…)
