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விடுதப்புலிகள் இலங்கையின் யுத்தம் நடைபெறும் பகுதிகளில் இருந்து பொதுமக்களை வெளியேற விடாமல் தடுத்து வருகிறார்கள். அதனை மீறி தப்பிக்க முயற்சி செய்பவர்களை சுடுகிறார்கள் சில நேரங்களில் கொலை செய்கிறார்கள் என்று ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் ஸ்தாபனம் இன்று திங்கட்கிழமை தெரிவித்துள்ளது.

விடுதலைபுலிகள் போராளிகள் அல்லாதவர்களை ஒரு சிறிய காட்டுப்பகுதிக்குள் பிடித்து வைத்துக் கொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள். அந்தப்பகுதி இலங்கை ராணுவத்தினரால் சுற்றிவளைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அத்துடன் 14 வயது சிறுவர்களை தமது படையில் சேர்த்து வருகின்றார்கள் என்று மேலும் தெரிவித்துள்ளது.

பொதுமக்களையும் குழந்தைகளையும் பாதுகாப்பதற்கு உரிய நடவடிக்கை எடுப்பதனால் நோயினாலும் போரினாலும் ஏற்படும் பாரிய மனித உயிர் அழிவுகளை தடுக்கமுடியும் என்று இலங்கை அரசையும் புலிகளையும் கேட்டுக்கொள்கின்றது.

தமது நிறுவனத்தின் உள்ளூர் பணியாட்கள் 15 பேரையும் அவர்களைச் சார்ந்த 75 பேரையும் வெளியேற விடாமல் புலிகள் தடுத்து வைத்துள்ளனர். அதில் ஒரு பணியாளரை புலிகள் தம்முடன் இணைத்துள்ளனர். அவரை உடனடியாக விடுதலை செய்யுமாறு வேண்டுகோள் விடுத்துள்ளது.


UN says Tigers killing Sri Lankan civilians

COLOMBO (AFP) – Tamil Tiger guerrillas have prevented tens of thousands of civilians from leaving Sri Lanka's war zone and those trying to escape have been "shot and sometimes killed," the United Nations said Monday.

The rebels are holding non-combatants in the small patch of jungle in the north of the island where they have been cornered by government forces, it added.

"A growing number of people trying to leave have been shot and sometimes killed," the UN office here said in a statement, adding the Tigers were also recruiting child soldiers as young as 14 years old.

It urged both the Tigers and government forces to find a humane solution so that civilians, including children, could be spared more loss of life due to disease and the fighting.

The UN said it welcomed last week's declaration of a larger "safe zone" for civilians along a narrow strip of coastline in the island's northeast, but noted there had been fighting even within that area.

"This fighting led to the deaths and injury to yet more civilians," the statement said. "The United Nations calls for the Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) to refrain from fighting in areas of civilian concentration."

The UN said 15 of its local staff and 75 of their dependants were also not allowed to leave the conflict area by the Tamil Tigers, who had forcibly recruited one of the UN staffers.

"We are especially concerned that one staff member was reported forcibly recruited into the LTTE yesterday (Sunday)," it said.

"The UN calls on the LTTE to immediately release him, to desist from further recruitment of civilians, and to permit passage for people who wish to leave, especially the women and children."

Tens of thousands of civilians in the rebel-held area were experiencing serious shortages of food, medicine, and clean water, the UN said.

"Efforts to bring in more food and medicines have not yet been successful, and it is imperative that these needs be met."

The International Committee of the Red Cross had said a "humanitarian catastrophe" was unfolding in the region where the government says civilians are being held as a human shield by the Tigers.

The UN, the United States and Britain have asked the Tigers to allow civilians to leave the conflict zone while urging the Colombo government to declare a temporary truce. Both have rejected the calls.

On Saturday, the defence ministry accused the Tigers of a grenade attack that killed a woman and wounded 13 people who were trying to flee the shrinking area still under rebel control.

The Tigers have denied charges that they are attacking civilians and they say the civilians are staying in the area of their own accord.

Claims by either side cannot be verified as the government severely restricts independent access to the war zone.

News.Yahoo.com

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The rest of the world might never understand the violence Velupillai Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. For 26 years, the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had waged war with the government to win an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority. The struggle claimed more than 70,000 lives--including, on May 18, Prabhakaran's. The government says he was killed, along with 17 of his trusted lieutenants, while fleeing an army ambush.

Prabhakaran, 54, was born to a middle-class family on the Jaffna Peninsula. Incensed by discrimination against Tamils and radicalized by a militant grade-school teacher, Prabhakaran founded the LTTE in 1976, a year after a group he headed claimed responsibility for killing Jaffna's mayor. By 1983 the guerrilla movement--which pioneered suicide bombings and the recruitment of child soldiers--escalated the fighting into a civil war.

At the height of his power earlier this decade, Prabhakaran led a de facto government that controlled vast swaths of territory and boasted its own systems of taxes, roads and courts. As the army closed in, he allegedly used thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields. By the final days, just 250 LTTE members remained. They died too, along with the dream of eelam.

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