The Ceylon News

This very disturbing video should not be viewed by (children or women) This video shows the barbaric acts that were done to a boy who, together with his family, tried to escape being held as a 'human shield" by the manic terrorists of Sri Lanka, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The boy's legs had been open chopped off by an axe, in front of his own family, as a 'punishment' for trying to escape. Mercifully, the boy had died soon. Note how a Red Cross worker is aiding.

This is only a tiny fraction of the inhuman treatment that innocent Tamil people who are being held by the LTTE for their protection are being subjected to. The Tamil diaspora in western countries paint a very different picture, just to get international support to stop the Sri Lankan armed forces from completely eliminating these psychopathic terrorists. The Sri Lankan army is trying to help these innocent people. It is too bad that those in the United Nations, the "Human Rights Watch" with many other international aid organizations, and many other politicians have fallen for their blatant lies.

They say that one can fool some people some of the time, but no one can fool all the people all the time. This video should speak a lot of words for those who care. The dialogs in the video are in Tamil.

Please take heed

Warning.. this video Should Not Be Viewed By (Children or Women) ever since I watched this video I have had nightmares and when I think of it I feel sick.

The Tamil Tigers have been restricted a designated "safe zone"

Britain and France have released a joint statement criticising the alleged use of human shields by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka.

The two foreign ministers said the rebels had clearly been "forcefully preventing civilians from leaving" during a recent 48-hour ceasefire.

They said the truce had not been long enough to allow civilians to safely leave the conflict zone.

Earlier, the UN's head of humanitarian affairs also condemned the situation.

John Holmes accused the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of trapping 100,000 civilians in the war zone during the ceasefire, saying they had been "actively prevented" from leaving.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, called on the Sri Lankan government to announce a new ceasefire.

They said they were "deeply concerned that there was no large scale movement of civilians away from the conflict area to safety as we had hoped to see".

"It is clear that the LTTE have been forcefully preventing civilians from leaving the conflict area and we deplore their determination to use civilians as a human shield," they said.

The ministers also repeated their insistence that the LTTE must "renounce terrorism and lay down their arms as a necessary element for a long-term solution" to the conflict.

'Hoodwink'

The government announced a unilateral ceasefire in the conflict-hit north-east of the country starting on Monday and ending late on Wednesday, to coincide with the Sri Lankan New Year.

They asked civilians trapped inside the war zone to move out, but only a few hundred responded to the call.

The LTTE had said the ceasefire was an "act of hoodwink" designed to deceive the international community.

They said there should be an internationally supervised truce, paving the way for political solutions.

The Tigers have been fighting for a separate state for Tamils in the north and east of Sri Lanka since the 1970s.

As estimated 70,000 people have been killed in the conflict and thousands displaced.