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Tamils around the world warned the international community that thousands of lives are at risk inside safe zone. Tamil media publicized the situation on Saturday. What we feared became reality on Sunday, while the world was sleeping.

A heavy barrage of shelling by the Sri Lanka Army on the 'safe zone' that started at Saturday night 7.00 PM continued till Sunday morning slaughtering 2000 to 3000 civilians. The casualty includes hundreds of children and women. Health staff inside safe zone confirmed the mass slaughter quoting the injured who managed to reach the makeshift hospital.

We forecasted the imminent calamity and warned that the place is becoming more and more congested and said the damage will be unprecedented with the intensified attack on safe zone by Sri Lankan Army. On Saturday Fr. Edmund Reginald, a catholic priest and Coordinator of Annai Illam, a voluntary organization inside safe zone confirmed the number of people inside the safe zone as 165,000.

According to information from the safe zone on Sunday's calamity, dead bodies are strewn everywhere on road sides, in bunkers and inside the tarpaulin tents. Around 400 wounded who managed to reach the makeshift hospital have described the situation. The number of injured is feared to be more than thousand when considering the intensity of the attack and the dense of people in a narrow strip of land. Up to now more than 800 injured have been brought to hospital. Hospital staff expect that more would be brought in when the clearing starts.

Sri Lankan Army used every kind of lethal weapons, artillery shells, multi barrel rocket launchers, cannons and the banned cluster shells. The Sri Lankan Army usually chooses weekends for its massacres to minimise international attention.

The entire family of a devoted health worker, Gracian, has been wiped out in the shelling.

The Mullivaikkal makeshift hospital which was already congested and with minimal facilities is struggling to cope with the current situation, the medical sources said. The other make shift hospital in Naddankaal that has only OPD facility also severely damaged in the attack.

The international community’s failure to take any stern action or the least a warning other than pleading was taken by the Sri Lankan government as an authorization to massacre the civilians.

On the eve of Vesak the Sri Lankan Navy exposed it cruelty by refusing to allow 5 MT of nutritious supplement food meant for severely malnourished children inside safe zone and removed the stock from ICRC boat. And in a day after Vesak the Sri Lankan Army slaughtered thousands of innocent civilians.

The Tamils all over are waiting to hear how UN and the world powers are going to respond to the worst ever human catastrophe. Are they going to continue their silence and authorize the annihilation of Tamils from Sri Lanka? Has UN given its nodding and waiting for the last man in the safe zone to be killed to start with their post conflict development on a dead man's land.