U.S. says concerned over Sri Lanka civilian deaths

[AtulaSiriwardane]

U.S. says concerned over Sri Lanka civilian deaths

WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it was deeply concerned about an "unacceptably high" level of civilian casualties in Sri Lanka and called on both the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels to prevent civilian deaths.
"We're deeply concerned. We think that there's an unacceptably high level of civilian casualties," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told a news briefing, reacting to reports that hundreds of civilians had died on Sunday and Monday in an assault on the war zone controlled by the separatist rebel group.
"We've repeatedly urged the Tamil Tigers to lay down its arms and allow the civilians to leave," Kelly said. "The government of Sri Lanka should abide by its April 27th statement that combat operations have concluded and security forces should end the use of heavy weapons which of course could cause civilian casualties."

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U.S you are concerned for the last two - three years. Thanks for your concern and also for not doing anything about it.

Posted By: Carrlos

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Britain "Appalled" By Civilian Deaths In Sri Lanka

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband speaking to reporters ahead of a U.N. Security Council meeting on unrelated matters on Monday said he was appalled by reports that hundreds of Sri Lankan civilians were killed over the weekend.




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Government disturbed by UN comments

The Government is disturbed by comment made by the UN office of Colombo regarding the attacks which reportedly took place in the Safe Zone over the weekend. Foreign Secretary Dr. Palitha Kohona told reporters he had contacted the UN office if Colombo over the issue today.

A reasonable statement for what it’s worth. Ironic though, I bet the term ‘unacceptably high’ is being used in the aftermath of your own war crimes in Afghanistan. Cheeky. Truth be told, a cut in your little finger would hurt more than the knowledge of the number

 

[AtulaSiriwardane]

American Guilt
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The Americans clearly invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Neither country attacked the USA first. All Bush’s blather about an imminent nuclear attack was a big lie. You probably don’t believe me, so I suggest watch Uncovered, The War on Iraq. Hear it from the mouths of the like of: Thomas White (secretary of the army), Scott Ritter (arms inspector), George Tenet (C.I.A. chief), Richard Clarke (terrorism tsar), Philip Coyle (assistant secretary of defence), Joseph Wilson (diplomat) and George W. Bush (president). Even Tony Blair repudiated the lie on the evening news on 20070-05-28. Most Americans make no bones they attacked Iraq without provocation, perhaps justifying the invasion on the grounds Iraq might have done America harm some years down the road, or that they did it in the name of Jesus or freedom or America, or as Henry Kissinger but it “Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.” American patriots are so convinced of America’s moral rectitude, they can’t believe their actions are criminal.
Yet the fact is, anyone, even an American, who helps in prosecuting an aggressive war is an international war criminal. In 1946 that was hanging offence, but today merely a life-sentence.
There you have it. Nearly every American in Iraq is there to further the occupation. The invasion is part of an aggressive war. That makes every last one of them an international war criminal, even if they personally killed no one.



http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqwarcriminals.html#WARCRIMINALS

 

[AtulaSiriwardane]

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Most Americans are in deep denial that their country would butcher children and civilians, routinely torture, or bomb homes. Yet nearly every American saw this live on CNN with his own eyes on 2003-03-20 when America did its Shock & Awe bombing of the residential sections of Baghdad on the opening day of the war. Granted, they did not see the blood spurting, but they saw apartments full of families being turned to rubble. Everyone knows perfectly well what happens when a bomb hits an apartment. Americans pretend the $2 trillion they borrowed for the war went for reconstruction. If that were so, every Iraqi would be living in a $400,000.00 USD mansion. That money clearly went for mayhem and destruction. Soldiers are trained and paid to kill, not build schools or hand out candy. America has behaved worse than Nazi Germany. Americans plug their ears and say “lah lah lah” as if that would erase their responsibility. How dare they claim to be a Christian nation!
Many Americans have written me convinced none of the casualties in the photos below could not possibly have been done by Americans. They seem to think American soldiers are in Iraq to act as police rather than killers. Consider. Iraqis have only IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) to fight with. Whereas only American have helicopters to drop people out of, white phosphorus to mummify them, napalm to cook them to a crisp, cluster bombs to shread them, DU etc. So if you see a white phosphorus victim, nobody but Americans could have done it.

 

[AtulaSiriwardane]

Sources for Iraq war body counts. Keep in mind counts will be low for three reasons:

1. In the chaos of war, reporting casualties is a low priority.
2. Iraqis do not want casualty reports to demoralise their troops.
3. Bush does not want casualty reports to anger the anti-war movement.

• According to the Washington Post as of 2006-10-10 a team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that George W. Bush gave in a speech in 2005-12. It is more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the British-based Iraq Body Count research group.
• The Iraqi ministry of Health estimates 151,000 civilians killed as of 2006-11-09.
• According to The Harring Report as of 2006-08-15, 158,000 U.S. military were shipped to Iraq, 5,500 deserted, 12,000 were killed and 25,000 seriously wounded according to DoD unpublished lists. The official total is 2,791 killed.
• As of 2005-12-07, U.S. military dead in Iraq, including suicides, 2,125; U.S. military amputeed, wounded, injured, mentally ill, all now out of Iraq, 49,500; Iraqi civilians dead, 118,900.
  ~ McLaughlin Group

 

[fazil00789]

WHAT ABT LAST WEEK THE BLADDY U.S KILLS 100 IN AFGANISTAN BY AIR STRIKE WHO CONERN ABT THIS F**K .WHATEVER OUR PRESIDENT DO ITS CORRECT.........DONT ARE ABT THIS U.S

 

[AtulaSiriwardane]

WHAT ABT LAST WEEK THE BLADDY U.S KILLS 100 IN AFGANISTAN BY AIR STRIKE WHO CONERN ABT THIS F**K .WHATEVER OUR PRESIDENT DO ITS CORRECT.........DONT ARE ABT THIS U.S

Do you really mean
'If they kill civilians we too can'

Then how can you blame them?
You are following them.

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