http://www.hic-tamil.org Coordination Office for Humanitarian & Human Rights for Tamils Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:21:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en World Humanitarian Day On this, the inaugural “World Humanitarian Day”, Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) honors the memory of humanitarian workers throughout the world who have laid down their lives in selfless service to those affected by war or natural disaster. Humanitarian workers in Sri Lanka, and TRO staff in particular, have ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=140 Any health system would have difficulties responding to the needs of over 260,000 people who recently came out of a war zone. Facilities in the Sri Lankan camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) are overstretched. People sometimes wait days before they can see a doctor for treatment. At night, ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=125 by Nimmi Gowrinathan When the cameras came, everyone came to the edges of the IDP camp. One hand on the hot metal of a barbed wire fence, the emptiness in their eyes was captured in images flashed around the world as the military campaign of the Government of Sri Lanka came ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=118 A massive artillery barrage by the Sri Lankan army last night killed at least 1257 civilians and left another 3814 wounded in the Save Zone declared by Government of Srilanka. A doctor working in the Save Zone make shift hospital  described the assault as the bloodiest he had seen in ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=85 Ban Ki Moon the Secretary-General of the United Nations, visited Sri Lanka last week. He knew from his officials that at least 20,000 civilians had been killed by Sri Lankan troops in the offensive against the Tamil Tigers. Mr Ban never mentioned this figure to his Sri Lankan interlocutors. He ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=83 The Sri Lankan armed forces have repeatedly struck hospitals in the northern Vanni region in indiscriminate artillery and aerial attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. Commanders responsible for ordering or conducting such attacks may be prosecuted for war crimes. Patients, medical staff, aid workers, and other witnesses have provided Human Rights ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=81 The Sri Lankan army has killed 91 people at a makeshift hospital inside a civilian safe zone in the last two days, two doctors have told the BBC. The doctors said bombardments from the army had killed 64 people on Saturday, including patients, their relatives and bystanders in Mullivaikal. About 87 ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=79 A government health official said at least 64 patients and bystanders were killed in two artillery attacks that hit the hospital Saturday. Another 87 people were wounded, said the official, who declined to be identified by name because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The artillery attacks came ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=77 The current situation in the so called ‘safe zone’/’no fire zone’ is dire. A humanitarian catastrophe of unprecedented proportions is taking place and the international community, especially the UN, have delayed, procrastinated, made weak ineffectual statements and have accepted the Sri Lanka Government’s reports as ‘fact’. Of particular concern is the ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=75 Aid workers accused Sri Lanka yesterday of causing an avoidable humanitarian disaster as the country’s Government appealed for international help in handling 100,000 civilians who have fled the conflict with the Tamil Tigers since Monday. The Government had maintained for weeks that there were fewer than 50,000 civilians in the area ... http://www.hic-tamil.org/?p=73