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Sri Lanka: SLAF Bombs Civilians Settlement in Killinochchi Town

Sep 10, 2008, 15:15

Killinochchi - Concentrated aerial attacks conducted by the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) densely populated Killinochchi Town area where U.N agencies and other non governmental organizations having their offices hundreds of thousands of Internally displaced people also living.

SLAF’s Kfir bombers attacked Killinochchi town Wednesday around 7:00 a.m., wounding a 90-year-old man and a 11-year-old boy and causing damage to 23 houses. A 23-year-old pregnant mother was to be operated due to fetal death, caused by the bombardment and a 1-year-old child was admitted in fainted state, medical sources said.

The attack has taken place at the heart of the town where NGO offices, residences, civilian facilities and other offices are located. The Sri Lankan bombers fired 16 bombs and deployed lethal air bursts, causing wide destruction. NGO office of Seva Lanka and a store of OXFAM are located 100 meters from the attack site.

A pregnant woman, Rega Logeswaran, who was rushed to Ki'linochchi hospital after a stone hit her abdomen, was being operated as doctors confirmed fetal death. The young mother was being transferred to Vavuniyaa hospital. A one-year-old child, Vasanthan Chudarnilavan, was admitted to the hospital in fainted state.

Hundreds of civilians in Wanni area have been killed while many hundreds of civilians were wounded on a daily air raids conducted by the SLAF during last one year alone.

Sri Lanka is bent on pressing for a military victory over the Tamil Tigers and since 1972 the conflict has left at least eighty thousands people dead. Sri Lanka has been pronounced by media rights activists and rights groups as the most dangerous place in the world for journalists and aid workers to work.

Three decades old civil war in Sri Lanka killed at least 215,000 people according to the surveys done by the UN World Health Organization. Escalated fighting between the SF and LTTE in the north and east of Sri Lanka at least half a million people internally displaced and over million people externally displaced. At least 5,800 people have been killed in last two years alone, a right group said.