
Destruction of the heart of Tamileelam civil administration
While the Sri Lanka Air Force had destroyed a large number of civilian homes in Vanni in the pretext of attacking LTTE military bases over the last one year, the civil administrative structured of the de-facto Tamileelam government were left intact for fear of reprisals on the parallel structures of Sri Lanka by the LTTE.
However, starting from Wednesday, 1 October 2008, for three consecutive days, there were concerted aerial attacks on the civil administrative structures of the de-facto Tamileelam government. A parallel artillery firing into the heart of the Kilinochchi town was also carried out at the same time. On Wednesday, the Tamileelam administrative centre for coordinating all civil services was bombed. Also destroyed was a private outfit KNC, that delivers computers services to the customers. 
On Thursday, the head office of the political wing and the peace secretariat were bombed.
On Friday, the head office of the Tamileelam police was bombed. Also bombed were a store of the TRO and the district office of a leading women’s organization, CWDR.
None of the infrastructures that were destroyed,
- the coordinating center for all civil administrative services,
- head office of the political wing,
- the peace secretariat,
- the head office of the Tamileelam police,
- the TRO store,
- KNC, the outfit for computer services,
- the district office of CWDR - the leading women’s organization in Vanni,
were military organizations.
The Sri Lanka Government has carried the above blatant assaults on the civil administrative structures which have clearly violated standard humanitarian norms under the cover of military operation.
07 October 2008
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