This Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 photo provided Monday, Feb. 2, 2009 by independent observers in Sri Lanka shows the body of an unidentified Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil woman, allegedly killed during shelling, in the debris of a temporary shelter in Udakattu village in the rebel-controlled town of Puthukkudiyiruppu, 275 kilometers (170 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo)Rare Images Emerge Of Sri Lankans Trapped
In War -- Yahoo News/AP
In War -- Yahoo News/AP
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Rare images of suffering civilians trapped in Sri Lanka's war zone emerged Monday: Dead parents still cradling their children. A teenage boy with no arms crying in despair. A severely crowded hospital with many patients lying on mats under already full beds.
The photographs and video footage of scores of dead and wounded, which were handed to The Associated Press by independent observers traveling in the war zone, are a glimpse of the some 250,000 civilians trapped in the shrinking jungle battle zone as Sri Lanka tries to finally crush the Tamil Tigers after a 25-year war.
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My Comment: The Sri Lanka war has been unique in that very little photo and video evidence of the war has reached the west. The Sri Lankan Government has made a conscious decision to limit information .... and they have been successful in this policy.
But with the war coming to an end, government censorship and control of information is breaking down. The slaughter and the bloodshed is now so pervasive .... they simply cannot hide it .... and as a result we now have the pictures and videos being released.
Expect more in the weeks to come.