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EUROPE ACCUSES SRI LANKAN ARMY OF ASSASSINATING AID WORKERS




Justin Huggler,Asia Correspondent
Thursday 31 August 2006 00:00 BST
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Hours before the Sri Lankan President is due to meet Tony Blair in London today,
European ceasefire monitors have accused his security forces of the
"assassination" of 17 aid workers from a French NGO.

Even as Mahinda Rajapakse meets Mr Blair to discuss the crisis in his country,
the Sri Lankan military is accused of what has been called the most serious
attack on humanitarian workers in the world since the bombing of the UN compound
in Baghdad in 2003.




The accusation will increase the pressure on Mr Blair to push Mr Rajapakse for
an end to the continuing violence between his forces and Tamil Tiger rebels in
Sri Lanka, just days after his government launched a new offensive close to
where the killings took place



Seventeen local employees of the French NGO, Action Contre la Faim, (ACF) were
found dead in the town of Muttur earlier this month. Fifteen were found in the
NGO's local office with bullet wounds to their heads. The bodies of two others
were found in their car near by; they had apparently been trying to flee.



All 17 were wearing T-shirts which identified them as humanitarian workers. Each
side has accused the other of the killings. Now, for the first time, unarmed
European ceasefire monitors have accused government forces. The monitors said in
a statement yesterday that they are "convinced that there cannot be any other
armed groups than the security forces who could actually have been behind the
act".

The statement called the killings a "gross violation of the ceasefire accord".
The outgoing head of the monitoring mission, the retired Swedish general Ulf
Henricsson, was blunter. He called the killings a "committed act of
assassination" and "one of the most serious recent crimes against humanitarian
aid workers worldwide".



The Sri Lankan government reacted furiously. "We deny it, and it's a totally
baseless statement," said a spokesman, Keheliya Rambukwella. "It's pathetic and
it's biased and they have no right make such a statement because they are not
professionals in autopsy or post-mortem."

But the European monitors are one of the only parties in Sri Lanka respected for
their neutrality. They have no axe to grind on behalf of the Tamil Tigers. Most
of the monitors are being forced to withdraw after the Tigers threatened to
target them in retaliation after the EU named the Tigers as a banned "terrorist"
organisation.



The spokesman for the monitors, Torfinnur Omarsson, said they had interviewed
hospital staff, police, relatives of the dead aid workers, and other
eyewitnesses before coming to their conclusions. Several relatives have publicly
accused the government.

The accusation is certain to hang over the meeting with Mr Blair today. Downing
Street confirmed that Mr Blair is holding a "private meeting" with the Sri
Lankan President, and that they would discuss the current situation in Sri
Lanka.



Yesterday's allegations come after a disastrous few weeks for Mr Rajapakse's
government. The UN children's organisation, Unicef, accused the Sri Lankan air
force of killing children in an air raid, prompting the military to respond by
saying: "If the children are terrorists, what can we do?"

International support for the government was strong until just over a month ago.
But it has been seriously eroded since the government launched a ground
offensive which has set off the worst fighting since the 2002 ceasefire.



Even so, the West is unlikely to drop all support for Mr Rajapakse in the face
of the enemy he is fighting. The Tigerspioneered suicide bombing and have been
blamed for trying to force the Sri Lankan government into war through a series
of attacks. They are fighting for a homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka.




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