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Video: Inside the "safe" zone

Channel 4 News has obtained footage from inside the "safe" zone which shows what is said to be the aftermath of an artillery attack on people queuing for milk and food.

http://www.channel4.com/

Some of the images in this report are distressing.

After months of heavy fighting, government troops are now surrounding the rebels in a tiny strip of north eastern Sri Lanka, inside a specially designated zone where thousands of civilians are sheltering.

Tamil Tiger reports claim scores of people were killed and injured in the strike eight days ago, many of them children

9 Comments

A poor and belated attempt at bandaging the bleeding conscience of the West

Posted by: Velu Balendran | April 17, 2009 03:47 AM

looks like fake vedio, tiger propaganda, whose fault

Posted by: Kumara Ekanayke | April 17, 2009 05:23 AM

In addition to this video, if anyone is interested in finding as what is actually happening in LTTE controlled areas, UTHR Bulletin 47 must be an eye opener.

http://www.uthr.org/bulletins/Bul47.htm

Posted by: Arun Vincent | April 17, 2009 09:02 AM

what is the point of writing here. everyone knows what happening but no one would do anything to stop the crisis.

Posted by: Nadarasa | April 17, 2009 03:01 PM

If it were white (Caucasian) people inside the "Safe Zone", there would be worldwide outrage at such a video. Since it is brown-skinned Tamils, the Western World just pays lip service to the on-going tragedy. Brown people should form their own "United Nations." Waiting for the American/Zionist run United Nations to attend to our problems just shows how much we are stuck in the colonial mentality. We need to empower ourselves. That is the only way we can be truly free.

Posted by: Dinesh | April 17, 2009 06:03 PM

Kumara ekanayake,
I feel really sory for you, you have no heart or sense. How dare you say its fake? Its not your problem, day will come you people going to pay a heavy price for this. wait for that day, then onlt you will realise what your ruthless army doing to our people.

Posted by: R.Veera | April 17, 2009 08:01 PM

Sorry for the innocent people.But dnt blame the government.Ask those who started war to stop this.Those who saw the seeds must reap the harvest.That is the nature of war.

Posted by: Saman | April 17, 2009 10:44 PM

Dinesh,

According to the new global order no one is allowed to empower themselves!

That is the sad situation of the times. Right or wrong don't matter.

Posted by: N2 | April 18, 2009 12:55 AM

when u analise the video foot, they clearley points out some hints...Childern, sick, elderley and food shortage.At the end these all come with a price of death. who cares, who did, what we want for whom ? why we fight each other? why why???????

Posted by: Anonymous | April 18, 2009 02:06 AM

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