SRILANKA GENOCIDE: AERIAL, CHEMICAL BOMBING, ARTILLERY SHELLING, MASS MURDER (1990-2000)-1

Thirteen babies were among the 65 dead found under the rubble of a Catholic church bombed...
-Reuters Report (July 11)

"The Sri Lankan air force bombed a refugee-packed Catholic church in the northern Jaffna peninsula, killing 65 people

including 13 babies...The military had dropped leaflets warning civilians to seek refuge in temples and churches to

minimise the chance of death or injury in air strikes."
- Reuters (11 July 1995)

"The (Sri Lanka army) operation, involving intensive artillery shelling and air strikes, immediately forced tens of

thousands of civilians to leave the area. Many of the displaced sought shelter in churches and temples, including several

hundred people who took refuge in the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Navaly. According to eye-witness accounts, this

church and several adjacent buildings were hit by further air force strikes at 4.30 p.m. the same day."
- International Committee of the Red Cross Communication to the Press No.95/30 (11 July 1995)

"Hours after the Sri Lanka government imposed military censorship on press reporting, on 21 September, aircraft bombed a

Jaffna schoolyard crammed with 750 children on their lunch break, killing 34 and seriously injuring over 150 others."
- The British Refugee Council, Sri Lanka Monitor (September 1995)

"In May this year (1995), President Chandrika Kumaratunga declared that it may be necessary to launch an all out attack in

the Jaffna peninsula and that this 'would mean a lot of civilian casualties' and 'the place would be wiped out'. In May,

June and July the Sri Lanka armed forces launched a genocidal onslaught on the Tamil people in the Tamil homeland in the

North-East."
- 21 NGOs at the 47th Sessions of the UN Sub-Commission (9 August 1995)

"I share the grief of those who lost their loved ones in the bombing of the church and school of Navali."
- Pope John Paul (12 July 1995)

"Seventeen innocent civilians, mostly children and aged, killed on the spot. Sixty seriously wounded and many houses

damaged... They executed this disaster with their two newly acquired MI24 helocopters..."
- Rev. Dr. S.J. Emmanuel, Vicar General, Jaffna Diocese (14 April 1996)

"Sri Lanka is trying to kill or terrorize as many Tamil people as possible."
- Margaret Trawick, Professor of Social Anthropology Massey University New Zealand (28 April 1996)

"The conclusion seems inescapable that these rapes are not simply misdemeanours of undisciplined soldiers but are a part

of the systematic attempt made by Sri Lanka to terrorise and subjugate the Tamil people and extend its military rule over

the Tamil homeland in the North-East of the island."
- Statement by Liberation, UN Commission for Human Rights, 53 session (3 April 1997)

"We particularly call on the Sri Lankan government forces to stop shelling and aerial bombing. Long distance shelling and

bombing from high-flying planes will mean further indiscriminate killing of civilians..."
- Australian Council for Overseas Aid (July 1995)

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