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By Simon Gardner
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers on Wednesday accused the
military of abusing conventions on the treatment of war dead but the
military denied it had behaved wrongly and said photos showing naked
bodies had been doctored.
The Defence Ministry on Tuesday posted pictures on its Web site of
clothed rebels slain in the Tigers' biggest ever suicide operation
sprawled on tarmac, some charred, one with eyes wide-open and one with
a gaping hole in his head.
Witnesses said that after the photos were taken some of the dead were
stripped, however, and their naked bodies piled into the back of a
tractor trailer to be driven to a mortuary in the northern district of
Anuradhapura.
Several journalists saw the bodies on the way to the mortuary after
hearing rumours, and the photographs were widely circulated on Web
sites on Tuesday and published in one local newspaper on Wednesday.
The military denied any of the bodies were naked, and said the
pictures had been doctored.
"Somebody has taken (those photographs) to tarnish the image of the
(armed forces)," military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said
on Wednesday, without specifying who. "We are professional soldiers.
We do not want to do (things) like that.
"I can assure you we wrapped all those bodies in black polythene
bags ... and sent it to the hospital," he added. "Some photographer
who is interested in tarnishing the image of the army has done this
purposely."
"It's not a real photo. It's a made up one."
The Tigers sent out a statement on Wednesday condemning the incident
as a violation of the Geneva Convention.
"They have broken not only the Geneva Convention, but also norms
observed by decent militaries all over the world," Tiger military
spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said by telephone from the northern
rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi.
The rebels say 21 Tiger suicide fighters were killed in Monday's pre-
dawn assault.
Fourteen military personnel were killed, and the government said on
Wednesday eight aircraft, including helicopters, a spy plane and
training aircraft were destroyed -- far more damage than the military
initially reported.
Witnesses said the tractor trailers, used normally to collect garbage,
were accompanied by military personnel and stopped for several minutes
at a junction where a crowd of dozens of people had gathered in the
rain as word of the trip to the mortuary got around.
The hospital mortuary, where the bodies were being taken, was just 100
metres away. There was no traffic.
"The bodies were taken from the camp to the mortuary. One tractor
trailer contained naked bodies, bodies in the other were in plastic
bags," said a journalist known to Reuters who was at the scene and
asked to remain unnamed for fear of retribution.
"I came to a spot along the route where people had congregated to wait
for the bodies, and the tractors then came and stopped so the crowd
could look," the journalist added.
Another journalist witness said: "There were some civilians and other
journalists about 500 metres from the mortuary. Two tractors came, one
with naked bodies and (the) other with black plastic bags. I presume
those are the blown up bodies of suicide cadres."
Monday's attack in the north, where renewed civil war is now
concentrated after troops captured swathes of Tiger territory in the
east of the island, comes after a series of clashes that have killed
around 5,000 people since early 2006.
Nearly 70,000 people have been killed since the war began in 1983, and
while the military has had the upper hand in recent months, analysts
see no clear winner on the horizon and say the conflict could rumble
on for years.