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Last December, the government of Sri Lanka held a day of national festivities to commemorate the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In April, intense fighting continues between government and LTTE forces. However, the escalating humanitarian crisis of the Tamil civilians remains unheeded by the international community...
...With its proclaimed goal of rooting out terrorism, the Sinhalese-dominated government of Sri Lanka has systematically destroyed and taken control of nearly all of Tamil Eelam. This is the minority Tamils’ homeland, rightfully defended and governed by the LTTE following the 2002 Norwegian-led ceasefire agreement...
...from 2001, and only cover "participating urban hospitals." For rural areas, death certificates are even harder to come by. Officials must rely on the "Survey of Causes of Death" (SCD), a "verbal autopsy survey of a sample of villages across rural India." One study conducted in a rural Tamil Nadu district tracked 39,000 deaths - 16% of which were suicides committed by women using fire...
...Kashmiri separatist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has bases in southern Punjab. "My own assessment is that it is a Pakistani militant group," says retired general turned analyst Talat Masood. "Whether it is Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Mohammed, I can't say." Sri Lankan officials say the Tamil Tigers, who are behind an insurgency in their own country, are not believed to be responsible. (Read TIME's brief history of the Tamil Tigers...
...With this attack - using a do-it-yourself plane and a couple of bombs - the whole city was plunged into darkness (the power was cut) and fear, as tracer bullets and anti-aircraft fire punctured the sky. With two planes down, this might be the last sortie from the Tamil Eelam Air Force; but it may be the beginning of a new phase of guerrilla warfare in Colombo...