Monday, May 11, 2009

UN decries Sri Lanka gov't "bloodbath"

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The United Nations condemned a "bloodbath" in Sri Lanka's northern war zone today after two days of shelling that a government doctor said killed as many as 1,000 ethnic Tamil civilians — including 106 children.
Volunteers dug mass graves in the marshland, putting 50 to 60 bodies in each pit, according to Dr. V. Shanmugarajah, who works at a makeshift hospital in the war zone. He said one nurse was killed along with his family in a trench that was then filled with soil and turned into their grave. More>>

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