University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Sri Lanka
UTHR(J)
Information Bulletin No. 46
Date of Release: 8th July 2008
A resident of the Vanni told us, “You cannot imagine life there. It is unbearable, the constant fear of aerial attack. Everyone is mentally killed every day, women, children and infants. Some bombs are set to penetrate the soil and explode. You could then see a hole about 30 feet deep and the water spilling in as though a well had been dug. Some bombs are set to explode 15 feet above the ground. Usually about four bombs are dropped on the target area. Then nothing would be left standing in about two acres of land. It would simply be scorched earth. The third kind of bomb explodes on striking the ground. Its vibration, along with a heavy gust of wind could be felt in a radius of two miles. Most of the house windows would be shattered.”
To read the full report, containing the following sub-sections please visit http://www.uthr.org/bulletins/Bul46.htm
1. Anger and Despair over Aerial Terror
2. Slaughter of Innocents and the Economically Marginalised
3. How the LTTE survives? – People Believe in the Struggle though not in the LTTE
4. The Escapees
5. Life in the Vanni
6. The Government and the Tamils
6. 1 Sampoor
6.2 Democracy for the East
6.3 We Choose Your Leaders and Fixers
7. The Breakdown of Constitutional Norms
8. No hope for a political Settlement in the Near Term: Keeping the Flame Alive
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