War Crime Claims Re-Emerge In Sri Lanka -- Al Jazeera
When troops crushed the Tamil Tigers, allegations of mass killings arose, but officials reject calls for an inquiry.
In March 2009, in a small town in the north of the island, hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamils had formed a queue to collect kanji, a boiled rice-porridge dish, which was being distributed by a charity later found to have ties with armed groups.
Then the explosions began.
"I remember that one shell fell adjacent to the food distribution line, and when it exploded the shrapnel hit many civilians who were standing in line," said one eyewitness.
"I remember seeing many dead bodies... A number of these dead bodies were elderly people and children."
At the time, the north was the scene of the concluding stages of a 26-year civil war fought between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed separatist organisation known as the Tamil Tigers, and government troops - a fight which the UN says may have claimed as many as 40,000 civilian lives in its final months.
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My Comment: As long as the men who led the war (and final defeat) of the Tamils remain in power, there will never be a true account of what happened. But one day there will be an examination and the truth will come out .... but not now.
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