PLEASE SIGN TO STOP GENOCIDE TAMILS

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Dear Friends,

In recent weeks, the Sri Lankan government has engaged in a brutal war against Tamils in Sri Lanka. Daily artillery and aerial attacks on displaced people have aggravated an already serious situation facing Tamil civilians. In mid-January, over 300 were killed and over 1,000 were wounded—in a single day.

In early February, another 150 were killed in a single day, and remain without any medical attention. The situation has become catastrophic.

There is a mass exodus as people try to flee, but the Sri Lankan Army continues to shell fleeing civilians. Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) surveillance aircraft are still circling over the region, providing coordinates for the SLA to direct artillery shelling on civilians, said one activist on the ground. There are dead bodies everywhere.



Sadly, the international community has done little to stop the Sri Lankan government from committing genocide against the Tamils. The Sri Lankan government has been firing into "safe zones", hospitals, and orphanages. One orphanage that came under attack by the Sri Lankan Army housed tens of Tamil children that are visually and hearing impaired. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), "hundreds of people have been killed and scores of wounded are overwhelming understaffed and ill-equipped medical facilities in Sri Lanka's northern Vanni region. Hospitals and ambulances have been hit by shelling, and several aid workers have been injured while evacuating the wounded.

"The violence is preventing the ICRC from operating in the region," said Jacques de Maio, ICRC head of operations for South Asia in Geneva.

The Sri Lankan government recently announced that it will place 200,000 displaced Tamils in what they call "welfare villages" that would be enclosed with barbed-wire. To the Tamil community, it sounds like concentration camps for Tamils.

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