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Interveiw & update of Tamil protests in Westminster, London.
Insights to current situation in Sri Lanka and where to go from here.
The Tamil people in Sri Lanka are now mainly located in an allocated "safe zone".
This zone has been targeted in recent days by chemical weapons and even here, we are told, the civilians and children are not safe from their persecutors.
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Thankyou Chris -
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"I am not a tiger. I am a Tamil civillian"peace, da100thmonkey
- 3 years ago
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The Times April 23, 2009
Innocence crushed by two guilty forces
Both the Sri Lankan forces and the Tamil Tigers have acted indefensibly. The UN must step inAsh Kandasamy
Imagine a place not much bigger than Central Park in New York, crammed full of people - tens of thousands of them. People wounded, people starving, people without medical care - people held at gunpoint as artillery and shells rain on them. When they try to escape, rebels shoot at them. They were told one place was safe, but government forces fire there too. There is no escape.
This is happening now. In a region of northern Sri Lanka known as the Wanni, Tamil civilians are trapped between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, separatists who have been fighting for more than 25 years...while ethnic tensions play a role, this has become more truly a war of the armed against the unarmed.
This has never been more apparent than now, as the unarmed civilians suffer fire from both sides. Their alleged representatives the Tigers' leadership, use them as human shields, which has not prevented the Government from shelling and firing heavy artillery, even into the no-fire zone. Casualties have hit catastrophic levels, with at least 10,000 sick and injured patients evacuated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and untold more killed and wounded, including children.
for more details see: times online//tamil
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