Sri Lanka aid workers 'shot dead'

[MrPrax]

Sri Lanka aid workers 'shot dead'

Fifteen local employees of a French charity have been found shot dead in the strife-torn town of Muttur in northern Sri Lanka, aid workers say.

An official from the group, Action Against Hunger, said the bodies had been found in the agency's office.

Fighting between the army and Tamil Tigers erupted in the Muttur area after the rebels cut the water supply to villages more than two weeks ago.

BBC

Fifteen aid workers found executed

FIFTEEN aid staff working on post-tsunami rebuilding have been found executed in an office in north-east Sri Lanka after heavy fighting.

The Consortium for Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) confirmed yesterday that one of the relief teams that reached the battered town of Mutur had found the corpses. "They found them in the office on the ground, lying face down - executed," Jeevan Thiagarajah, the head of the CHA, said.

He added that it was not clear who had killed them and there was no further information immediately available last night.

Mutur has seen days of fighting between the government and rebels from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and thousands of people have fled.

Scotsman

[mtice]

1. Both sides...

... have long track records to indicate they are fully capable of having done this. So, who benefits by them being dead?