Sri Lanka: 300,000 civilians face hunger

300,000 civilians face hunger, Colombo, abettors re-enact African scene in South Asia

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 16:10 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has instructed UN and World Food Programme officials to keep away from 'safety zone,' which has been subjected to continuous inhuman artillery barrage, denying civilians any meaningful space of refuge, said the latest reports from the offices of the Regional Director of Health Services (RDHS) for Ki'linochchi and Mullaiththeevu. 300,000 Tamils are denied of even drinking water and are facing hunger, the reports say. "Completely given up by the International Community, the civilians are left to face the fate at the hands of their genocidal killers. Indications are that they would rather choose to die starving rather than getting caught by Colombo's army of predators," said a medical staff at Udaiyaarkaddu hospital.

"These are people who have maternal attachment to their land and freedom."

"If the abettors of Colombo's war, India and especially the Co-chairs, do not change their attitude, these people would face hunger and death. The situation is worse than what the world has witnessed in Congo and other countries in the Africa," he said.

"They think people would walk into the hands of the SLA as they were forced to do in Champoor and Vaakarai, but they fail to grasp the reality."

Humanitarian catastrophe worsens, as drinking water supply has been severely restricted.

In the meantime, pitched fighting was reported between the SLA and the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) in several fronts.

Carnage in Sri Lanka...

More than 300 civilians feared killed, people bleed to death on streets

[TamilNet, Monday, 26 January 2009, 15:30 GMT]
In a scene of carnage of untold proportion on civilian targets hit by hundreds of Sri Lanka Army fired artillery shells, more than 300 people have died and several hundreds are bleeding to death within the last 24 hours, amidst pouring rain inside the 'saftey zone' declared by the Colombo government. Houses and vehicles burn for a stretch of three km between Va’l’lipunam Kaa’li temple and Moongkilaa’ru towards Paranthan road, reports from Vanni said on Monday. Unattended bodies and injured people unable to move are lying around everywhere, while a remaining doctor fled and helpless ICRC officials virtually cried at the scene from their bunkers, TamilNet correspondent said.

TamilNet publishes direct eyewitness accounts from the street of Udaiyaarkaddu.

Voice: Eyewitness account from K. Kamalanathan (Tamil voice, Part I)

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Nearly 400,000 people have been told by the army to confine themselves to a stretch of 30 square km. A part of this terrain is marsh and jungle. People have flocked themselves in the remaining patches of coconut groves and they stay there without any amenities or food and with the risk of being attacked even in the ‘safety zone’.

Voice: Eyewitness account from K. Kamalanathan (Part II)

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There is only one road in the locality, which is choked by fleeing people. Even this road is targeted by barrage of shells and people have died. The shelling prevents even people from fleeing.

The exact number of people died could be more, as it is not possible to take a count in the other places.

Voice: Eyewitness account from S. Thayalini (Part I)

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Those who are injured are sure to die, as the remaining two hospitals, which were functioning at Udaiyaarkaddu and Va'l'lipunam (Mullaiththeevu hospital), are defunct now.

The injured, if cannot move on their own, are left unattended to bleed to death.

The fleeing people, including infants had nothing to eat, mother of a three months old child, S. Thayalini, told TamilNet correspondent.

Voice: Eyewitness account from S. Thayalini (Part II)

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"It is not merely a humanitarian crisis, but a shame on human civilization. What a world, watching and abetting the whole thing, having no conscience, said K. Kamalanthan," a social activist who talked to TamilNet while fleeing Udaiyaarkaddu.

In the mean time, Indian and International News Agencies operating from Colombo publish no accounts of the mass genocide, taking place in Vanni. They continue to eulogize Colombo’s military victories, painting a picture of LTTE ‘terrorists’ using civilians as human shield.

These news agencies, which had no guts of finding out what is happening on their own, are spinning stories for the government and are a shame to the profession of journalism and to the Information Age. They cannot deny their role of being a party to the war crime, said a Tamil journalist among the IDPs.

Chronology:

26.01.09 Targeting civilians in safety zone, premeditated w..

26.01.09 'Biased UN official misleads humanity, safely sitt..

26.01.09 More than 1,000 wounded, Mullai RDHS urges IC to s..

26.01.09 TNA seeks IC to stop carnage, urges medical help t..

26.01.09 More than 300 civilians feared killed, people blee..

26.01.09 Does IC know no human dignity of civilians, asks a..

26.01.09 100 civilians feared killed, countless wounded, ar..

25.01.09 SLA shelling kills 22 civilians, wounds 60, target..

24.01.09 12 civilians killed, 87 wounded, SLA continues art..

23.01.09 'Safety zone' shelled again, 5 civilians killed, 8..

23.01.09 Artillery barrage continues, 3 killed, 33 wounded

22.01.09 2 medical staff wounded in artillery barrage on ho..

22.01.09 Military was provided with exact coordinates of ho..

22.01.09 Hospital bombed, 5 killed, 15 wounded

22.01.09 66 civilians killed within 3 days - Mullai RDHS

22.01.09 SLA attacks civilians in 'secure zone', several ki..

21.01.09 IC urged to act on humanitarian grounds to safegua..

20.01.09 Unprecedented civilian carnage in Vanni

18.01.09 Vanni civilians under deadly siege

18.01.09 Artillery barrage kills several civilians, dozens ..

18.01.09 Sri Lankan shelling kills 4 civilians, children am..

17.01.09 Catholic priests appeal to UN to intervene in Vann..

16.01.09 5 civilians killed, 7 injured in Sri Lankan artill..

16.01.09 Jaffna Bishop urges SL President to stop bombardme..

16.01.09 Humanitarian tragedy in Vanni enters deadlier phas..

16.01.09 "Which norms of liberal democracy preclude IC atte..

13.01.09 Doctors call for attack free zones surrounding dis..

13.01.09 Humanitarian tragedy unfolds in Vanni

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Demonstrations against Israels war of agression on Gaza

5.000 people demonstrated in Bremen (Germany) on January 3rd of 2009 against Israels war of agression on Gaza

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ILPS condemns Israeli ground invasion of Gaza

ILPS condemns Israeli ground invasion of Gaza and escalating massacre of Palestinian people

By Professor JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International L eague of Peoples' Struggle
Sunday, 04 January 2009

Since December 27, 2008, the US-supported Zionist Israel has carried out a war of aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza. It has launched air strikes by F-16 jet planes and Apache helicopters and artillery shelling by naval vessels in order to massacre hundreds and injure thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and destroy their homes, mosques, schools, public buildings, oil depots, power plants, water facilities and other infrastructure.

The massacre of the Palestinian people and the destruction of their public and private properties are being rapidly escalated with the ground invasion of Gaza by thousands of Israeli troops and tanks since evening yesterday. The aggressors have interdicted food and medicine supplies. They have destroyed all the sources of fuel and power and have thus disabled vehicles and the hospitals. They have killed Palestinian medical personnel and have prevented ambulances from reaching the victims of aerial bombardments, shelling by naval artillery and strafing by ground forces.

The US imperialists are hellbent on letting the Zionists wreak death and destruction on the Palestinian people without limit and with complete impunity. They have publicly incited the Zionists to escalate their aggression and have blocked every effort in the UN Security Council to pass a ceasefire resolution and to stop the carnage. Together with the Zionists in Israel, they want nothing less than the complete surrender and subjugation of the Palestinian people in Gaza and in the whole of Palestine.

US imperialism is being consistent and true to its evil nature. It has supplied Israel with all the military, political and economic resources to wage aggression repeatedly against the Palestinian people since 1948, occupy Palestine and drive away millions of Palestinians from their homeland. The US has used Israel as the bridgehead of US imperialist hegemony in the Middle East and as the platform for threatening and blackmailing countries in the region, making them military and political clients and controlling the oil resources.

We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle, reiterate in the strongest terms our condemnation of the US-supported war of aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and once more declare our solidarity with and support for the entire Palestinian people in their resistance against Zionist Israel and its US imperialist master.

In this regard, we also criticize and condemn those governments in the Middle East that collaborate with the US in supporting Israel directly and indirectly, delivering the oil resources of the region to the US oil giants and suppressing the resistance of the Palestinian, Arab and other peoples in the Middle East. It is a shame that the overwhelming number of Arab people are prevented by their governments from extending the most effective support to the Palestinian people.

We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle, stand in solidarity with the Palestinian, Arab and other peoples of the world in the struggle against US imperialism and Israeli Zionism. Once more we call on all member-organizations and allies of the ILPS to initiate as well as join protest mass actions and other activities that express and gather militant support for the resistance of the Palestinian and Arab peoples against US imperialism and Israeli Zionism.