Tigers Accuse Sri Lanka Military Of Bombing Civilians
Friday, August 29, 2008 at 4:58 pm
COLOMBO:Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels on Friday accused government forces of setting off a roadside bomb and killing two civilians inside guerrilla-held territory.
A man and a child died when their motorcycle was caught up in the bomb attack at Nedunkerni in the vast Wanni region on Thursday evening, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said in a statement.
“A farmer and a boy were killed in a clay more attack by the Sri Lanka army in Olumadhu in Nedunkerni on Thursday,” the statement said, adding that most of the residents of Nedunkerni were displaced as a result of ongoing fighting.
The military routinely denies that it carries out attacks against civilians inside Tamil Tiger-controlled areas.
The Tiger statement came a day after Sri Lanka appealed to minority ethnic Tamil civilians living in rebel-held towns to move to areas under government control.
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse said the military had cleared a route for people fleeing the island’s embattled north, where troops are advancing on the rebel capital of Kilinochchi, 330 kilometres (205 miles) north of Colombo.
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