Articles by Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch
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The World Failed Sri Lanka. And Continues to Do So.
Mark Leon Goldberg, UN Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
What we know about those final days is stunningly awful. This International Crisis Group report and this UN Commission of Inquiry report describe a months-long massacre of innocent civilians caught between Tamil Tiger insurgents on one side and government forces on the other. The insurgents used civilians as human shields, and the government decided to shoot through those shields to get to the Tigers. Hundreds of thousands of people were trapped in an area the size of Central Park, subjected to daily mortar fire and indiscriminate killing.
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