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The Sri Lankan Government is currently engaged in the ethnic cleansing of the Tamil minority and the International Community is just turning a blind eye. A war that most people don’t even know about , a war not so different to Vietnam, the bombing of innocent civilians, schools, temples, orphanages, refugee camps and hospitals.

Since the beginning of 2009, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, over 2800 Tamil civilians have been killed and 7000 injured in a so called “safe zone” due to bombing and shelling by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.

The Government of Sri Lanka has removed all International Volunteer Organizations (INGOs) out of northern region where the conflict is taking place. And as the Government does not allow any International Media into the area there are NO WITNESSES of the ongoing Genocide and the unfolding Humanitarian crisis and the world is mostly oblivious. The Sri Lankan Government is currently using food, water and medicine as a weapon of war against the Tamils.

Over 250 000 Tamil civilians have been squeezed into a very small area, due to the recent government military offensive, the last few years of heavy fighting many people are without shelter, food, water and inadequate medical supplies. But regardless of the humanitarian disaster the government of Sri Lanka continues to bomb their own people on a daily basis.

Many people including a large number of children even babies are having to have limbs amputated as the government will not allow antibiotics into the region. Many of their wounds even those with minor injuries become septic and the doctors are left with no choice but amputation, sometimes without even any anesthetics

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly deplored the mounting civilian death toll - which he said included many children. Speaking in Geneva, the ICRC's head of operations for South Asia, Jacques de Maio, said the civilian population was paying the price for the conflict.

Unicef Sri Lanka spokesman James Elder said" the reports we are receiving show an increasing number of children have been injured and killed in the past week".

"I have seen some of these injuries - babies with shrapnel wounds, gun shot injuries and blast wounds; children whose mothers' last act was to cover their bodies and take the force of the shelling."

"The (government-designated) no-fire zone is believed to be very squalid and overcrowded and the UN has received information that people are dying from lack of food.

"The conditions there could lead to outbreaks of malaria, dengue fever and measles, and a chicken pox outbreak has already been reported."

James Ross, legal and policy director at Human Rights Watch, said: "This 'war' against civilians must stop. Sri Lankan forces are shelling hospitals and so-called safe zones and slaughtering the civilians there."

James Ross, legal and policy director at Human Rights Watch, said: "This 'war' against civilians must stop. Sri Lankan forces are shelling hospitals and so-called safe zones and slaughtering the civilians there."

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