Secret Colombo US Embassy diplomatic cable (3/2009) says LTTE blocked civilians leaving battle zone | Asian Tribune

Secret Colombo US Embassy diplomatic cable (3/2009) says LTTE blocked civilians leaving battle zone | Asian Tribune: "The classified diplomatic cable sent from the American embassy in Sri Lanka under the signature of Ambassador Robert Blake to Washington state department dated 19 March 2009 very clearly said that the Tamil Tigers had refused to listen to Norway and other international community nations’ appeals to allow civilians to leave the battle zone “instead it has shot civilians who have tried to escape, and engaged in forcible recruitment of progressively younger and older civilians to augment its diminishing "

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