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UN urges Sri Lanka murder inquiry
Date: 8/10/2006 12:55:05 PM Sender: BBC

                                                UN urges Sri Lanka murder inquiry  


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There was international outrage over the murders of the aid workers

The United Nations has demanded a full and independent inquiry into the murders of 17 international aid agency workers in the north-east of Sri Lanka.
The aid workers from the Action Against Hunger group (AAH) were shot at close range over the weekend in Muttur.
Meanwhile the army and Tamil Tiger rebels have resumed heavy fighting in the area of a disputed waterway in the north-eastern district of Trincomalee.
The Tigers say they lost 10 men, while the army says five troops were killed.
The UN says the inquiry into the murder of the aid workers should find out how unarmed, humanitarian workers could be executed.
The Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland, said that the Paris-based AAH aid agency "did fantastic work to help tsunami victims in Sri Lanka".
The government and the Tigers have blamed each other for the killings.
＇Worsening situation＇
Both sides say they are in control of the Maavilaru waterway.

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There has been fierce fighting in the north-east

The rebels on Tuesday said that they opened the sluice gate - which supplies water to 15,000 families. Later the government says its forces were responsible for opening it.
A lull in the fighting ended on Thursday.
"The situation is worsening," a member of the team monitoring the country＇s 2002 ceasefire said.
"We thought the water issue was resolved," one diplomat told the AFP news agency. "Today＇s fighting makes [the Norwegian mediators＇] job more difficult."
The Tigers said at least 50 civilians have been killed and 200 injured in the latest violence, a claim disputed by the military.
The government said there was an explosion at an ammunition dump in the Trincomalee area on Thursday.
Army spokesman Upali Rajapaksa told the BBC that damage caused by the explosion was not yet known. He said it was not caused by enemy fire.
＇Heavy casualties＇
Meanwhile many wounded soldiers have been treated in a hospital in the town of Kantale.

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Recent fighting in the Trincomalee area has been fierce

One told the Reuters news agency that soldiers close to the sluice gate on the waterway had come under fire.
"We were in a field. It was dark and we could not see anything," Lance Corporal U Dharmasiri said.
"Then there was Tiger firing and artillery. I suddenly felt a lot of pain."
Local hospital chief DGM Costa told the AFP news agency that his staff were treating the heaviest number of casualties over the last two days.
The government had deployed some 2,000 troops in a bid to reopen the waterway.
The fighting then spread to other areas in Trincomalee district.

The worst violence centred on the north-eastern town of Muttur, some 70km (46 miles) south of the waterway.

Thousands of the town＇s mainly Muslim residents fled while the Tigers and military fought over it.

More than 800 people are estimated to have been killed in Sri Lanka in low-level fighting in recent months.

Despite the upsurge in fighting both sides still say they are acting defensively and therefore complying with the conditions of a 2002 ceasefire.



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