December civilian toll
Thirty Tamil civilians were killed and another twenty were disappeared by the Sri Lanka government operated forces in Tamil homeland during the month of December 2007. 18 civilians were killed and nine civilians were disappeared in Jaffna district alone.
 In this month five bodies of Tamil civilians were recovered from various locations, among those, three bodies were washed ashore. This report also includes the killing of another aid worker, the SLRC-Point Pedro branch head, Subramaniyam Kousikan, killing of Sinkarasa Subanayaki after she was raped by the GoSL forces and the disappearance of three civilians when they were on their way to Vavuniya from Kattunayaka air port. Also included below is the breakdown of the causes of 659 Tamil civilian deaths during 2007. The breakdown demonstrates that 85% of the killings occur as individual deaths. However it is only the remaining 15% of the deaths caused by bombing, claymore, and shelling that receive major attention. This effectively masks the scale of the killings. 
 A PDF version of the December monthly toll can be downloaded here
05 January 2008
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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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