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GENOCIDE OF TAMILS IN SRI LANKA

AERIAL BOMBING & ARTILLERY SHELLING

On the pretext of fighting the LTTE, Sri Lanka army targets civilians to terrorize and subjugate the Tamil people.


Refugees at a Church Bombed
 

"this church and several adjacent buildings were hit by further air force strikes at 4.30 p.m. the same day. During the attack 65 people were killed and 150 wounded, including women and children."
- International Committee of the Red Cross Communication to the Press No.95/30 (11 July 1995)

Thirteen babies were among the 65 dead found under the rubble of a Catholic church bombed...
-Reuters Report (July 11)

 


Refugees at a Church Bombed
"The Sri Lankan air force bombed a refugee-packed Catholic church in the northern Jaffna peninsula, killing 65 people including 13 babies...The military had dropped leaflets warning civilians to seek refuge in temples and churches to minimise the chance of death or injury in air strikes."
- Reuters  (11 July 1995)


Children killed in a schoolyard bombed

"The (Sri Lanka army) operation, involving intensive artillery shelling and air strikes, immediately forced tens of thousands of civilians to leave the area. Many of the displaced sought shelter in churches and temples, including several hundred people who took refuge in the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Navaly. According to eye-witness accounts, this church and several adjacent buildings were hit by further air force strikes at 4.30 p.m. the same day."
- International Committee of the Red Cross Communication to the Press No.95/30 (11 July 1995)

Children killed in Sri Lanka airforce bombing
"Hours after the Sri Lanka government imposed military censorship on press reporting, on 21 September, aircraft bombed a Jaffna schoolyard crammed with 750 children on their lunch break, killing 34 and seriously injuring over 150 others."
- The British Refugee Council, Sri Lanka Monitor (September 1995)

A man grieving the death of children
"In May this year (1995), President Chandrika Kumaratunga declared that it may be necessary to launch an all out attack in the Jaffna peninsula and that this 'would mean a lot of civilian casualties' and 'the place would be wiped out'. In May, June and July the Sri Lanka armed forces launched a genocidal onslaught on the Tamil people in the Tamil homeland in the North-East."
- 21 NGOs at the 47th Sessions of the UN Sub-Commission (9 August 1995)

A family mourning death of breadwinner.
"I share the grief of those who lost their loved ones in the bombing of the church and school of Navali."
- Pope John Paul (12 July 1995)

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