Photograph: Inside the final conflict zone, pictured on May 5th 2009. As the Sri Lankan military continued its shelling of the No Fire Zone, the LTTE called on the international community to facilitate the delivery of urgent humanitarian aid.
A US State Department report noted a source inside the No Fire Zone as stating the Sri Lankan military was “engaged in daily shelling and bombing of the NFZ, killing an estimated minimum of 100 people per day”.
Photographs: Above and below - Tamil children with signs of acute malnourishment, pictured inside the final conflict zone. The LTTE’s Political Head B Nadesan accused the Sri Lankan government of deliberately carrying out a "horrendous act of genocide", with their restriction on food, medicines and humanitarian access to Tamil civilians in the final conflict zone.
The aftermath of a Sri Lankan military attack on a hospital, which was hit twice on the morning of 2nd May 2009. The only remaining hospital in Mullivaikkal was attacked twice by the Sri Lankan military on the morning of the 2nd of May 2009, with at least 64 people killed and a further 87 injured.
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