On Monday ( 20th April 2009 ) Sri Lankan Army attack targeting civilian areas using cluster bombs, gas bombs and heavy weapons was planned to inflict more damages to people and force evict them in to army controlled areas, said an Eye Witness to WWW. On Monday’s indiscriminate attack on civilian areas more than 1500 feared dead and 3500 or more injured, including hundreds of children.
– 1500 died and more than 3500 severely injured
– Sri Lankan Army Used Chemical weapons
– Sri Lankan Army Used Cluster ammunitions
– Sri Lankan Army Used Phosphorous bombsBodies are scattered all over and Urgent Need of blood, no one is able to donate due to malnutrition said the Eye Witness.
The Sri Lanka Army that took hostages of around 1000 people who left for government controlled areas on the previous night and using them as human shields moved in to safe zone in the cover of the darkness by around 2:00 AM on Monday. The shelling was intensified by then and they were firing cluster bombs, gas bombs and phosphorous bombs inside civilian areas.