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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 1392367" data-attributes="member: 212">Why are you so silent..........???Don't you even have the guts to condemn these attacks?Don't these innocent people have "Human Rights" ?  WHERE ARE THE NGO 'SWHERE ARE THE HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS?????????CANT YOU SEE THIS.......... Sri Lanka grieves over deaths of schoolchildren in terror bomb blastsTuesday, February 5, 2008, 19:30 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka..Feb 05, Colombo: Sri Lanka has been shocked by the news of nine schoolchildren brutally massacred in the suicide bomb blast on Sunday in the heart of Colombo city.Seven schoolboys from D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo, and two 12-year-old schoolgirls from Holy Family Convent in Dehiwala and Raddolugama Maha Vidyalaya were killed when a female LTTE suicide bomber blew herself up at the Fort Railway Station on the day before the country's 60th Independence Day celebration.Among the dead were six members of D.S. Senanayake College's baseball team. The coach was also killed in the explosion that killed 13 in all and injured over 90 others. Funerals for four of the boys are scheduled for tomorrow, while the other three are scheduled the day after.Meanwhile, the Education Ministry has decided to close all schools in the Colombo zone until next Monday.Among the seven students of D. S. Senananayake College, Colombo killed in the LTTE attack at the Fort Railway Station on Sunday was Rajarathnem Radeeswaran of Dematagoda, a Tamil student in the Ordinary Level class.According to the Tamil community in the area, Radeeswaran was popular among the youth in addition to being a talented baseball player. He had to pay with his life, to an organisation claiming to be the very guardians of the community he represented, residents said.Seven students and their baseball coach, were among the dead in Sunday's blast, which claimed 14 lives.The baseball players and their coach were returning to Colombo after participating in a club match in Kandy the previous day, sources said.According to the sources, six students who participated in the match returned the previous day while others stayed back to visit historic sights in and around Kandy. The other victims are Kolitha Kumara Mahamudalige, 19, of Hokandara-A/L 2007, Vimukthi Thewarapperuma, 18, of Kalutara North-A/L maths, Supun Hallala, 16, of Angoda-A/L Commerce, Dinuth Priyasanka of Agalawatta, 17, After O/L, Thiwanka Thisera, 17, of Dehiwela-A/L Arts.Eranda Chaturanga, 21, of Colombo 7-After A/L and Nalinda Arumadura, 26, of Gandara-Baseball Sri Lanka stages mass funerals after Freedom Day bloodshed1 day agoCOLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka staged mass funerals for bomb blast victims after independence day festivities were marred by a string of attacks blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels.Schools in Colombo were shut as a Buddhist service was held for seven students and their baseball coach killed in a suicide bombing at a train terminal here on Sunday on the eve of Freedom Day.After funeral rites, the coffins were taken to the victims' homes for burial.In the northeastern Weli Oya region, a funeral was held for three people killed on Freedom Day in a bomb attack on a civilian bus that left 14 people dead and 15 injured.Five people killed on Saturday in a bus bomb attack were buried in a mass grave in Kandy district on Monday.President Mahinda Rajapakse insists security forces are winning the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and that the guerrillas have been confined to the northern region of the palm-fringed tropical island.But there has been an explosion of violence blamed on the rebels in recent weeks, with a series of bloody attacks.Villagers have been hacked to death inside government-controlled territory, and another roadside bomb attack killed a soldier in the south on Monday.London-based Amnesty International said Tuesday it was alarmed over the worsening security situation as it could lead to a "further spiralling of civilian casualties.""Both the Sri Lanka government and the LTTE are failing to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law and are killing civilians on an increasingly regular basis," the rights group said."With no perpetrators brought to justice, a climate of impunity is becoming entrenched: unless these patterns are reversed the future appears bleak," warned Tim Parritt, deputy programme director for the Asia-Pacific region.The government has delayed by three days a military hardware and state enterprise exhibition after the attacks, which came as Sri Lanka celebrated 60 years of independence from Britain.Sri Lanka meanwhile complained to neighbouring India over the disappearance of seven of its sailors following a sea battle with suspected rebels on Monday near the common maritime border.It was not known whether the boat had sunk or the sailors had been taken prisoner.Colombo alleged that 400 to 500 Indian trawlers were poaching in Sri Lankan waters and that Tiger operatives had taken cover among them to launch an attack on Sri Lankan naval patrols.The Sri Lankan patrols could not return fire for fear of injuring the Indian fishermen, Colombo said.The Tiger naval attack followed ground confrontations between troops and rebels in the same area, in which at least five guerrillas were killed and four wounded, the defence ministry said.War planes bombed a suspected Tamil Tiger office on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the ministry said.In an independence day address to the nation on Monday, Rajapakse said Colombo was winning its war with the Tigers, saying "terrorism is receiving an unprecedented defeat."The Sri Lankan government last month officially pulled out of a defunct truce with the rebels, who have fought for more than three decades for an independent ethnic homeland in the Sinhalese-majority island.According to the defence ministry, the rebels have lost at least 913 fighters since the beginning of the year, compared with just 37 government soldiers killed.Scores of civilians have also died during the same period, according to both sides. No independent verification of the tolls is possible as the media and human rights groups are barred from the embattled regions.</blockquote>

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