Saturday, February 23, 2008

Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lanka


Eight civilians including a 6-month-old infant and a 4-year-old boy, their mother and an English teacher were killed, 14 including four children and another teacher were wounded in a Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) aerial bombardment of a civilian settlement at Kiraagnchi in the Poonakari division of Ki'linochchi district Friday at 8:10 a.m. Three houses were fully destroyed and many houses have sustained damage in the indiscriminate aerial bombardment in which more than 20 bombs were dropped by four bombers. Sri Lankan ministry of defence claimed that the SLAF had attacked "an inland sea tiger base" at Kiraagnchi.

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