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Responding to Channel 4’s recent
claims, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Presidential Adviser on Reconciliation,
explains that “[…] the deaths of civilians occurred largely because of
the strategy of using civilians as human shields, and then fighting from
amidst them. […]We did keep asking the ICRC to tell the LTTE to stop
using this tactic, but while they said they would continue to remind
both parties to the conflict of their obligations, they pointed out that
‘not having been agreed upon by both parties to the conflict, the zone
as such is not specifically protected under International Humanitarian
Law’.” Read more .... |
