Canada supports murderous Sri Lankan government

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When the Sri Lanka government and separatist Tamil rebels signed a cease-fire agreement in 2002, the world hailed the country's chance to achieve a lasting peace after 19 years of civil war. Now, that promise is a distant memory. A steady trickle of bombings and murders has burst into a flood of deaths in recent weeks, and parts of the country's north and east have turned into intense battle zones. In the past week alone, more than 100 soldiers and an unknown number of rebel fighters have been killed. The issue of whether Sri Lanka has fallen back into civil war is "really more of a question that the international [community] is asking," says Nilan Fernando, Sri Lanka representative for the Asia Foundation. "For Sri Lankans, for Sinhalese, for Tamils, and for Muslims, there's no question. We are back at war."

Given the grisly events of recent weeks, it's becoming difficult to doubt that assessment. On Aug. 14, dozens of schoolgirls were killed when the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed what it said was a training camp for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.), also known as the Tamil Tigers. Outraged L.T.T.E. officials, who put the death toll at 51 girls, said that they were attending classes in first aid; the government insisted they were child soldiers and thus legitimate targets.
Ten days before, 17 aid workers from the NGO Action Against Hunger were murdered in the eastern town of Muttur; the Tigers blamed the government, which denied the claim. The massacre followed clashes late last month touched off by a dispute over water in the east of the country, during which the Tigers blocked off an irrigation channel that supplied water to 15,000 farming families. The battles that followed forced 45,000 people from their homes, pushing the total estimated number of displaced civilians in the country to more than 100,000.
The heavy fighting has been concentrated in the northeast, but the violence has also spread to Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, where Pakistani Ambassador Bashir Wali Mohamed was targeted last Monday in a mine attack blamed on the Tamil rebels. He survived, but seven others were killed. Two days later the South African cricket team cut short a tour of the country. The government also closed state-run schools last week out of fear of reprisals for the deaths of the Tamil schoolgirls. For now, there seems to be little hope that the fighting can be controlled. Late last week the government launched new attacks in Jaffna and Kilinochchi in the north. "The unraveling of the peace process is a train wreck in slow motion," says Fernando. "It's agonizing to watch. The trend is downward and I expect it to continue."
http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/article/0,9754,1229028,00.html

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Every Member of the Action Against Hunger Team in Muttur was Killed[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]August 8, 2006[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]All seventeen of Action Against Hunger's employees in Muttur were found dead lying face down at the organization's base in Muttur. An Action Against Hunger team arrived at the scene and has officially confirmed the scale of the massacre. Amid ongoing fighting, the team recovered the bodies of the 17 national employees and brought them back to Trincomalee.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The bodies of the 17 Action Against Hunger employees arrived at Trincomalee hospital last night. All victims had been shot. Post-mortems are been carried out with the support of a United Nations representative. An investigation will be launched as soon as possible.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Action Against Hunger and the international NGO community in Sri Lanka have called on Sri Lankan authorities to carry out a transparent and conclusive investigation with support from the international community.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Action Against Hunger employees, 13 men and 4 women, between the ages of 23 and 54, were water and sanitation experts, engineers, agronomists, and project managers.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Action Against Hunger has implemented programs to improve hygiene conditions and access to water for 1,000 families in the area. The emergency program was launched to support people displaced due to interethnic tensions and the resumption of fighting in April and May 2006. Food security programs and other economic activities were also carried out in response to the needs of people affected by the tsunami of December 2004.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Benôit Miribel, Executive Director of Action Against Hunger- Frace, will leave for Sri Lanka tomorrow to support Action Against Hunger colleagues on the ground and to convey the shock and indignation about this tragedy on behalf of the Action Against Hunger International Network. He will also attend mourning services. Mr Biribel will ensure that an independent investigation is carried out to find out exactly what happened and to ensure that the perpetrators of this massacre-whose identity is not yet known-will be prosecuted.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Tomorrow, Action Against Hunger will express its indignation wiht regards to the "Muttur massacre" during a press conference at the organization's headquarters in Paris at 11:30 AM (French time).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Action Against Hunger has implemented programs in Sri Lanka since 1996 to assist the population affected by the conflict between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan army along with people who were displaced following the tsunami of December 2004. Action Against Hunger’s teams in Sri Lanka include 15 international employees and 224 national employees (three international employees and 50 national employees in Trincomalee).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]For more information, please contact:

John Sauer
Development & Communications Officer
voice: 212-967-7800 x103
cell: 917-548-7779
fax: 212.967.5480
jsauer@actionagainsthunger.org
Action Against Hunger,
247 West 37th Street,
Sutie 1201, New York, NY 10018
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http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/news/press/release_aug08_06.html

Now get your bloody facts right. I have seen posts here supporting the actions of the government of Sri Lanka (Buddhist) against Tamil Tigers (Hindu) but it the terrorists we are supporting, just like in Iraq where we support a government which is behind death squads that go around killing people.

So I guess we support the war by terrorists in Sri Lanka and elsewhere i guess?