‘Humanitarian concerns uppermost’

The Government is sending supplies to an estimated 250,000 as we don’t want to take any chances. There are stories about malnutrition and under-nourishment. One has to only look at these people who are coming out of the LTTE held areas to see that there is absolutely no indication that the people are starving

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Tigers use 150,000 as ‘shields’

The haunted eyes of the grandfather who had just escaped from the Tamil Tigers at their most furious betrayed the horror he had left behind him. “I want to live, not die, and that’s why I have come here with my family,” he said.

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Defence column

Troops encircle No Fire Zone

Forces poised for civilian rescue:

The three decade prolonged conflict in the North and East yesterday reached its climax as the Security Forces were able to confine the LTTE, the most ruthless terror outfit in the world into a narrow stretch of 20 square kilometres in the North of Mullaitivu which has been demarcated for the civilians trapped inside the conflict affected zone.

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