Cost of SLA adventure from Mavilaru to Sampur –lives of 97 civilians - 16 children
On 10 August, claiming it to be a “Battle for water”, the Sri Lankan government launched a massive attack in Trincomalee. The areas administered by the LTTE, even areas far away from the Mavilaru sluice gate, were attacked from air, land and sea. In the end the “Battle for water” turned out to be only a pretext to kill civilians and occupy LTTE areas. This was clearly proved when the Sri Lankan military shelled even the Head of SLMM who went to open the sluice gate to let the water flow.
  The PDF version of the full list of those killed in the SLA adventure from Mavilaru to Sampur
At the end of this military attack, 40 civilians including 5 children, 4 of them under the age of 5, were killed in the Sri Lankan military shelling. On 29 August, the military began its attack to occupy Sampur. On 6 September, when the Sri Lankan government claimed “victory”, 44 civilians were dead in the shelling, including 11 children, among them a 3 month old baby. Fleeing civilians were shelled and killed in these attacks. Sampur looked like a ghost town when “victory” was claimed by the Sri Lankan government. The Table below shows the statistics of civilian lives, the cost of the Sri Lankan government “victory”. A further 13 civilians were killed in these attacks whose names and other details are yet to be collected. The 100% blockade of the LTTE areas in Trincomalee makes even the task of collecting the names of the dead a struggle. Readers should be reminded that 50,000 refugees created by the “victory” are living under trees unnoticed by the international media.
18 September 2006
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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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