Posts Tagged ‘“bloodbath”’
Doctor claims government shelling has killed up to 1,000 civilians in Sri Lanka
[ Times Online ] Two days of heavy shelling of a supposed safe haven inside Sri Lanka’s war zone has killed at least 430 civilians — and possibly as many as 1,000 — a government doctor in the area said today. The United Nations described the bombardment as a bloodbath, saying that it had killed…
Read MoreAt UN, UK’s Miliband Decries Sri Lankan Bloodbath, IMF Loan Linked, No Resolution
[Inner City Press] After a weekend of bombing and “bloodbath” in Sri Lanka, the first official to speak out at the UN in New York was UK minister David Miliband. He stopped to speak to the Press on his way into the UN Security Council’s meeting on the Middle East. He said he has arranged…
Read MoreUN mourns Sri Lanka ‘bloodbath’
[BBC] The United Nations has described the situation in northern Sri Lanka as a “bloodbath” after reports of heavy civilian casualties at the weekend. UN spokesman in Colombo Gordon Weiss said more than 100 children died during the “large-scale killing of civilians”. On Sunday, a doctor working in the war zone said at least 378…
Read MoreChildren killed in Sri Lanka ‘bloodbath’: UN
[ AFP ] More than 100 children were among a large number of Tamil civilians killed in a weekend “bloodbath” in Sri Lanka, the United Nations’ spokesman in Colombo, Gordon Weiss, said Monday. He said the UN had been warning of a bloodbath as tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped in a narrow…
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