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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Sri Lanka: No Justice in Aid Worker Massacre
(New York) – The Sri Lankan government
has made no real progress in holding accountable those responsible for
the execution style slaying of 17 aid workers seven years ago despite
renewed international calls for action.
On August 4, 2006, gunmen executed 17 Sri Lankan aid workers – 16 ethnic Tamils, four of them women, and a Muslim – with the Paris-based international humanitarian agency Action Contre La Faim (Action Against Hunger, ACF) in their office compound in the town of Mutur in eastern Trincomalee district. The killings occurred after a several-day battle between government forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for control of the town. The ACF team had been providing assistance to survivors of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Sri Lanka: No Justice in Aid Worker Massacre
- A member of the French aid group Action Contre La Faim places a wreath in front of the photographs of his 17 slain colleagues at their memorial in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka on August 11, 2006© 2006 Reuters
The Rajapaksa government is good at throwing bones to the international
community, but not at taking serious measures to find and punish those
responsible for serious abuses. If the families of 17 aid workers can’t
get justice for their loss, it’s hard to be hopeful for anyone else.
(New York) – The Sri Lankan government
has made no real progress in holding accountable those responsible for
the execution style slaying of 17 aid workers seven years ago despite
renewed international calls for action.On August 4, 2006, gunmen executed 17 Sri Lankan aid workers – 16 ethnic Tamils, four of them women, and a Muslim – with the Paris-based international humanitarian agency Action Contre La Faim (Action Against Hunger, ACF) in their office compound in the town of Mutur in eastern Trincomalee district. The killings occurred after a several-day battle between government forces and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for control of the town. The ACF team had been providing assistance to survivors of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
