Sri Lanka: End ‘War’ on Civilians

Army Shells and Detains Displaced Persons, Tamil Tigers Prevent Their Flight. The Sri Lankan government should immediately cease its indiscriminate artillery attacks on civilians in the northern Vanni region and its policy of detaining displaced persons in internment camps, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Since early January 2009, civilian casualties have skyrocketed in the fighting between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. More...