Sri Lanka Admits To Civilian Deaths During War -- Voice of America
Sri Lanka has acknowledged for the first time that civilians may have been killed in the last phase of the country's quarter-century-long civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels.
A defense ministry report released Monday said although the military followed a "zero civilian casualty policy," it was impossible to avoid such casualties given the magnitude of the fighting and the "ruthlessness" of the opponent.
Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009 with the military's defeat of the Tamil Tigers.
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