Sri Lanka - Heavy SF shelling Kills 15 Injures 30 including children in Mulaitivu

Sri Lanka - Heavy SF shelling Kills 15 Injures 30 including children in Mulaitivu

G. Vickram - TNS

Mulaitivu - 15 civilians were killed including five children when barrages of shell fired by Sri Lankan Security Forces (SF) from 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday hit Visuvamadu, Udayrakaddu, Suthanthirapuram, and Manikapuram internally displaced civilians in Mulaitivu area. At least 30 civilians also were badly wounded according to the sources in Mulaitivu.

6 shells fell on an area where 25 families were internally displaced and lived together. This attack alone 2 people were killed including a young boy. SF troopers' indiscriminate aerial and shell attacks killed hundreds and many hundreds injured within past few months while displaced over 350,000 including 40,000 children who are living in subhuman conditions.

A catastrophic situation developed in Vanni for these innocent civilians as they are facing annihilation as indiscriminate land, sea, and air attacks on them by the Sri Lankan forces in 400 sq miles Mulaitivu area daily. These people facing severe shortages of food, medicines, drinking water and other basic necessities in this area as severe blockade was imposed upon by the state on them for past many months, an IDP representative said.

India should stop war, instruct Colombo to talk to Tigers - BJP Tamil Nadu

[TamilNet, Saturday, 17 January 2009, 12:37 GMT]
A senior leader of BJP, a major national political party of India, visited Friday Thol. Thirumavalavan, the VCK President who is on a fast-unto-death demanding the Central government of India to stop the war being waged by Colombo against Eezham Tamils. The BJP politician, Vaithiyalingam, a member of the party's national general council, declared that India, which is a powerful country in the region, cannot sit back and watch without doing anything to stop the genocidal war in Sri Lanka and added India should be specific in demanding ceasefire between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam.

Another BJP politician Kasi Muthu Manickam also addressed the gathering.

A neo-Buddihst monk from the Dalit community addressed the gathering. He condemned Sri Lanka and said it was a shame to call Sri Lanka a Buddhist country. Religious representatives from the local Muslim Jamaat also visited Thirumavalavan and donated money to the campaign.

Thirumavalavan's fast has entered 3rd day and his doctors were concerned of blood pressure and sugar levels, sources in Chennai said Saturday.

The fasting VCK leader thanked the BJP politicians for visiting him and expressing solidarity to his campaign said that the BJP politicians' solidarity, despite the ideological difference between Hindutva BJP and the secular and Dalit VCK, showed the genuineness of the cause he was representing.

The BJP in Tamil Nadu has recently staged protests in support of Eezham Tamils.

The BJP, in alliance with several other parties, was in power from 1998 to 2004 with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the Prime Minister. The February 2002 Ceasefire Agreement was mooted, shadow-managed and supervised by Vajpayee's Advisor Brajesh Mishra, reports revealed in Indian media last year.

The CFA signed in February 2002 was unilaterally withdrawn by the Sri Lanka government in January 2008.

Ruthless Genocidal Sri Lankan Army blocks gateway to Vanni civilians for 5th day

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 January 2009, 16:22 GMT]
A woman, wounded in Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombardment on 01 January succumbed to her wounds Monday night and other patients in need of urgent medical transport from Puthukkudiyiruppu to Vavuniyaa with ICRC escort remain blocked for days despite repeated attempts to access the road, which remained under Sri Lanka Army (SLA) artillery fire, as reported earlier. In the meantime, officials at the Government Agent's office in Vavuniyaa told media that the SLA has turned away humanitarian convoys despite their repeated attempts. Civilians in Vanni are refused essential supplies and refused critical medical transport, in violation to Geneva Conventions.

The officials in Vavuniyaa, responsible for facilitating humanitarian supplies to civilians in Vanni, complained that the SLA had turned away their convoys despite their repeated attempts, at least five times, since Thursday.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson with the ICRC told journalists in Colombo that they were unable to provide escort to the humanitarian convoys due to the security situation. The ICRC spokesperson also admitted that the movement of wounded civilians remained blocked as the ambulances heading for Vavuniyaa from the conflict zone were halted due to the closure of the roads.

Ruthless Genocidal Sri Lanka police took ten Tamils into custody

SL Police arrests 10 Tamils in Colombo, 8 in Kandy

[TamilNet, Sunday, 04 January 2009, 12:51 GMT]
Ruthless Genocidal Sri Lanka police took ten Tamils into custody Sunday morning in cordon and search operations conducted around Fort, Aattupattitheru, and Valaithoddam in Colombo city, sources in Colombo said. The operation was conducted on information received by the police after the explosion at Bankshall Street Saturday afternoon that injured three persons.

The arrested are being detained in police stations and are being interrogated by the Terrorist Intelligence Division (TID) of Sri Lanka Police.

Meanwhile, eight Tamil civilians were arrested at Udapusselawa in Kandy district .

Police said they were being interrogated as they failed to prove their identity and justify their presence in the location.

Ruthless Genocidal Sri Lankan Air Forces drops cluster bombs in Mullaiththeevu

[TamilNet, Saturday, 03 January 2009, 17:52 GMT]
Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers dropped cluster bombs at Mu'l'livaaykkaal in Mullaiththevu Saturday afternoon around 1:30 p.m., according to the reports from Mullaiththeevu. 

There has been no casualties in the bombardment.