Stop Asia's next genocide
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I was bathing when the Kfir planes came so I hid under the water tank, and then I realized they were coming for us, so I went and lay down underneath a bush. With the first bomb I was wounded in the stomach, but I didn’t realize this, it was like I had been burned by fire.
I got up and was walking away, and then other girls were calling to me, ‘Big sister, you’re wounded, stop and lie down.’ Blood was pouring down my body. The other girls wouldn’t let me get up and walk anywhere, so we were all lying down together. If we had gotten up we would definitely have lost an arm or a leg because they just kept bombing us. When they came to carry me and go, that’s only when I saw how much blood there was around me. Throughout the whole grounds, everyone was dying. They were all wounded but otherwise it looked like they were sleeping. They took us by pick-up truck to the hospital. I went from the Mullaitivu hospital to the Ponnambalam hospital in Puthukudiriyiruppu to the Tharmapuram hospital and then back to the Puthukudiyiruppu hospital. So my parents were going to each hospital looking for me. And other people were telling them I was dead. And then finally my older sister came searching and found me inside the operating room, where I had been left to sleep.
Rajeswary Selvanesh
This testimonial was collected by PEARL volunteers in 2006. To read more stories from Sri Lanka, visit our homepage at www.pearlaction.org
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Likelihood of genocide precludes GSP+ status
Urge the EU to deny Sri Lanka GSP+ trade status
December 18, 2008
I am writing to call your urgent attention to the Sri Lankan Government's continuing human rights violations, and on this basis, to urge you to revoke Sri Lanka's GSP+ trade status. The Sri Lankan government recently launched a military offensive against areas in the north and east of the island, causing over 300,000 people to flee their homes in fear. Despite the refugees' desperate need for basic humanitarian supplies, the Sri Lankan government ordered all international non- governmental organizations to vacate these regions. Peter Campbell from the World Food Programme commented on the wretched conditions in the north: "It is basic as it can be. I haven't seen anything so basic since when I was in Somalia."
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