Amnesty: Satellite Images Show Sri Lanka Graves


From Yahoo News/AP:

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A series of satellite images taken over Sri Lanka's former war zone showed the existence of large grave sites and evidence of possible mortar positions near areas that had been packed with trapped civilians, a human rights group said Thursday.

The release of the images was intended to challenge government claims that the military had ceased using heavy weapons in the final months of its war against the Tamil Tiger rebels in the jungles of the north to prevent large-scale civilian deaths.

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My Comment: Amnesty is documenting the obvious .... but documenting what will be viewed and looked at in the future. I have been critical of Amnesty International in the past, but congrats to Amnesty International for doing the work that needs to be done.

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