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In July 2011, Channel 4 exclusively revealed two individuals who witnessed the final violent stage in May 2009 who claimed a military commander and Sri Lanka's defence secretary ordered war crimes. One stated "They shot people at random. Stabbed people. Raped them. Cut out their tongues, cut women's breasts off. I saw people soaked in blood." [136]
The government of Sri Lanka in 2008 termed it a crime against humanity. [1] A number of independent observers such as University Teachers for Human Rights, a Human Rights organization from Sri Lanka, and western observers such Mr. John Richardson [6] and others [2] [5] [13] [12] maintain that it was a massacre of civilians.
After the 1983 anti-Tamil pogrom, full scale civil war erupted between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil rebel groups. [10] During the course of the civil war there were number of massacres of civilians and other human rights abuses attributed to both the government and its allied groups, as well as the various rebel groups.
Date Attack Location Sinhalese Tamils Muslims Death toll Sources July 23: Four Four Bravo: 13 soldiers are killed in an LTTE ambush in Jaffna, sparking anti-Tamil riots that cause the death of approximately 4000 Tamils across Sri Lanka during four days, in what would be later labelled as Black July.
The camps were surrounded by barbed wire. This, together with the conditions inside the camps, attracted much criticism from inside and outside Sri Lanka. [354] After the end of the civil war President Rajapaksa gave assurances to foreign diplomats that the bulk of the IDPs would be resettled in accordance with the 180-day plan.
Sri Lankan Army [1] [2] The 2006 Trincomalee Massacre of NGO Workers , also known as the Muttur Massacre , [ 3 ] took place on 4 or 5 August 2006, when 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim , or ACF ) were shot at close range in the city of Muttur , Sri Lanka , close to Trincomalee ...
The Kent and Dollar Farm massacres were the first massacres of Sinhalese civilians carried out by the LTTE during the Sri Lankan Civil War. [1] The massacres took place on 30 November 1984, in two tiny farming villages in the Mullaitivu district in north-eastern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government labeled this as an attack on civilians by the ...
Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island nation, a human ...