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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shehanga" data-source="post: 484235" data-attributes="member: 5308"><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">Hello All</span></span></p><p> <span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">This weekend we saw the results of an aerial attack on Colombo and it was</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">reminiscent of the TV News footage's of the attacks on Baghdad during the</span></span></p><p> <span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">Gulf War.  The military's air defences create a very spectacular display</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">as we see coloured lights shooting across the sky followed by the sound of</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">heavy machine gun fire.</span></span></p><p> <span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">Those coloured lights are in fact bullets which, because of chemicals they</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">are treated in, burn after they are fired.  This allows the gunners to see</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">where the bullets are going.  These bullets are called Tracer bullets.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">For very Tracer there are between 5 to 10 normal bullets you can not see.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">These bullets are big, half an inch (12.5 mm) in diameter and if they hit</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">a house they will go through all the walls in the house and come out the</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">other side, before entering into the next house.  These bullets travel for</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">more than 5 kilometres.  They are very powerful and very dangerous.</span></span></p><p> <span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">The fact is we are in more danger from this Anti-Aircraft fire than we are</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">from the bombs being dropped by the LTTE.  What goes up, has to come down,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">and these bullets have to come down; sometimes on top of people injuring</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">them.</span></span></p><p> <span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">I imagine on Saturday most people stood near windows or outside watching</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">this display; in future don't, stay inside, away from windows.</span></span></p><p> <span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">To make the situation worse there were some Police and Military firing</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">their T56 or AK47 personal weapons from the streets in to the sky. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 18px">If you are stood on a roof, you could be hit by this shooting, so stay inside.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chris Gibb</p><p>Security Coordinator</p><p>Save the Children</p><p>58A Horton Place</p><p>Colombo 07</p><p>Sri Lanka</p><p>Tel: 94 (01)1 2672668-70 & 2672672-74 Ext 110</p><p>Fax: 94 (01)1 2672671 & 2672675</p><p>Mobile: 0773054874</p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:chris@savethechildren.lk">chris@savethechildren.lk</a></p></blockquote><p></p>

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