Crime scenes at Sri Lankan camps

Grim scenes at Sri Lankan camps

Updated on 05 May 2009

By Nick Paton Walsh

Channel 4 News reports from a camp in the northern Sri Lankan city of Vavuniya, where Tamil refugees have been taken.

Shocking claims have emerged of shortages of food and water, dead bodies left where they have fallen, women separated from their families, and even sexual abuse.

This programme obtained the first independently filmed pictures from the internment camps set up by the Sri Lankan government to house Tamils who have fled the country's civil war. 

Source: http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/grim+scenes+at+sri+lankan+camps+/3126257

'Sri Lankan army hits hospital'
Updated on 02 May 2009
By Nick Paton Walsh

Doctors say Sri Lankan army shells a hospital in the safe zone killing scores of civilian patients. Nick Paton Walsh reports.The Sri Lankan army knows exactly where the no-fire safe zone is, and it knows exactly where the hospital is in that zone.

And yet doctors say the Sri Lankan army shelled that hospital killing nearly a hundred civilians and patients. Their report is confirmed by a diplomatic source.

The official said the Sri Lankan army had killed 64 patients, their relatives and other bystanders today, following the bombing of the makeshift hospital in the northeast of the country, in the tiny so-called safe zone.

It brings the death toll at the hospital to 91 in the last two days.

The hospital is in Mullivaikal, in the south of the coastal strip, still held by separatist Tamil Tigers.

Troops are advancing from the north, but the military hotly denies the attack.
There are some distressing images in this report.