Old man killed, four TRO workers injured in shelling
A sixty year old man, V Sinnarasa, who was herding his cows, in Tharmapuram was killed and four TRO workers helping the displacing people were injured at 12.45pm on Friday by SLA artillery fire directed towards Tharmapuram that is crowded with IDPs.
Also, extensive artillery fire towards Puthukkudiyiruppu in Mullaithivu on Friday night caused panic among the permanent as well as the IDP population in the area who hastily attempted to displace as a result. Entire families with small children trying to carry whatever they could in bicycles and motorbikes were depressing sight. Both Tharmapuram in Kilinochchi and Puthukuduyirppu in Mullaithivu have become substitute towns for Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu towns serving large IDP populations. The District Secretariats and the District Hospitals that were in Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu towns are presently functioning in Tharmapuram and Puthukkudiyiruppu respectively. A result most of the displacing people from Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu are crowded in Tharmapuram and Puthukkudiyiruppu. Any artillery fire directed towards these two areas is bound to cause great panic, death and injury.
10 January 2009
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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