‘Groups giving out false info on civil war’
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 2:03 am
The Sri Lankan military accused the international organisations on Wednesday (March 18), of giving out false information on the island’s civil war, saying rebel sympathisers have “infiltrated” the groups.
The accusation comes amidst tense fighting in the war-ravaged northern region, where the military says 38 rebels were killed in the last day. The battles in a shrinking strip of land along Sri Lanka’s northeast coast, have trapped tens of thousands of civilians in the deteriorating conditions.
The government accuses the Liberation Tigers of ‘Tamil Eelam’ of using the people, as the human shields in a bid to avoid defeat in a 25-year civil war. “We still find, there is an undue support coming from various quarters and various agencies for the LTTE,” cited the Defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella.
The Tamil Tigers have relied on a large international support network, and Rambukwella claimed, it was still active despite the huge military setbacks suffered by the rebels and that over the past decade, “they have certainly infiltrated certain personalities into these agencies”.
Rambukwella refused to name any specific agency. The government has routinely rejected figures put forward by the international groups, on the number of trapped civilians and the number of dead.
(Agencies)
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