BBC,  Tue Jan  3 17:10:55 EST 2006
Sri Lanka's army has denied involvement in the killing of five Tamil youths in the eastern town of Trincomalee.
Two survivors of Monday's attack said men in military fatigues had thrown a grenade at the group before dragging them into a truck and shooting them.

Ceasefire monitors said the killings resembled executions. "All five were shot in the head," a spokeswoman said.

It is the latest in a string of deadly attacks in the north and east linked to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.

The two students who survived Monday's attack told a post mortem inquest they had gathered at a popular meeting point near the beach in Trincomalee, about 250km (150 miles) north-east of Colombo, when the truck pulled up.

They could not confirm the identity of their attackers.

The army has ruled out an inquiry into the killings, saying the police are conducting one.

A statement on the army's website said the youths died when a hand grenade in their possession went off by accident. It accused them of plotting to attack security forces.

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This is serious accusation for SLA. If this incident took place as mentioned in the news article, this sort of brutal tactics does not cool down the situation in the region.
If these youths are really belongs to terrorist groups, they could be taken into the custody for further investigations without imposing full force on them and killing them.

amaka wrote:

This is serious accusation for SLA. If this incident took place as mentioned in the news article, this sort of brutal tactics does not cool down the situation in the region.
If these youths are really belongs to terrorist groups, they could be taken into the custody for further investigations without imposing full force on them and killing them.

Please don't cry much after killing students. So, this is the terrorized government. No one in the world will concern about this. This is happening since 1950's. How the tamils can get justice. I lost few of my friends on the way to school, before 1983. Army killed them without any reason and the next day SL radio news says SLA killed terrorist. No one in the world knows the reality. But people like you say that tamils in SL do not have any problems. Did you ever thought that how much we suffer such wordings you use??????
Please never talk if you do not know the reality..

"Never beleive a news from south".
A Indian politician said to GOSL in 1986 (who is supporter of india-SL peace accord) that Tamils in north will not hear what the south says if the news are not true most of the times. That is history.  
Five Tamils Killed in Sri Lanka Explosion  
DILIP GANGULY , Associated Press, Tues 3rd Jan 21:40GMT

THE_ACA_USR wrote:

"Never beleive a news from south".
A Indian politician said to GOSL in 1986 (who is supporter of india-SL peace accord) that Tamils in north will not hear what the south says if the news are not true most of the times. That is history.  
Five Tamils Killed in Sri Lanka Explosion  
DILIP GANGULY , Associated Press, Tues 3rd Jan 21:40GMT

yeah yeah lets believe the ABSOLUTE TRUTH that comes from TAMIL NET! what do you say buddy??


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Looking closely at the Tamilnet photos of the five youth, one cannot find any frontal injuries on their heads. If they were shot in the head, as claimed, wouldn't their heads show injuries. Some of the photos show bandages at the back of the heads implying injuries at the back of the head. But, no injuries whatsoever are visible at the front of the faces.

When I first read the army statement, I did not believe it. In fact, I thought why does the army want to lose credibility like this? Then, on reading the comments by the SLMM about the youth being shot in the head, I felt angry with whoever issued the army statement.

But, after looking at the Tamilnet photos carefully, (they can be enlarged for a closer look) I wonder whether the story is being made up. Do we have a forensic expert who can comment?

My gut feeling is that if someone is shot in the head, execution style, the bullets would go right through the head. Even if they are shot from behind, there should be injuries on their faces. In fact, if they are shot from behind, the bullets should exit through the front, leaving a ghastly hole.

Mr Mohammed,

Thank you for highlighting my posting, not once or twice, but THREE times!

I had read the BBC report before I sent my posting in, and in fact I have mentioned the SLMM comment in my posting. If all your effort is to show me the BBC report, you are wasting your time and forum space.

My posting was mainly to get some comment from someone who is familiar with forensic pathology. The way you keep parroting the BBC sentence, I don't think you are any kind of pathologist.

If you read my posting again, you will note that I am not blaming anyone for the killings. If the youth are LTTE cadres, it is very likely that they have been killed by the Karuna group. On the other hand, if they are innocents, they may have been killed by the Karuna group, the LTTE or by the SLA.

At first, I did not believe the army statement that the youth were killed by their own grenade. It was after inspecting the photos carefully, that I got the feeling that the photos have been set up. I am sure, forensic experts will have something to say about these photos. If the photos are a set-up, there is a strong possibility that the youth were killed by their own grenade and that the LTTE is trying to use the incident to its own advantage.

Now, Mr Mohammed, would you please like to give the same publicity to this posting as you gave to my previous posting? With the colours, the bold lettering repeated three times? Thank you.

kkk123 wrote:

At first, I did not believe the army statement that the youth were killed by their own grenade. It was after inspecting the photos carefully, that I got the feeling that the photos have been set up. I am sure, forensic experts will have something to say about these photos. If the photos are a set-up, there is a strong possibility that the youth were killed by their own grenade and that the LTTE is trying to use the incident to its own advantage.

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Shoot the dead bodies..but be carefull ..not to disfigure the face..that might have been the order!


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LTTE killing Army & Army kiling LTTE is war.
Army killing innocent tamils & LTTE killing innocent sinhalese is terrorism.

LTTE was avoiding the killing of civilians in the recent past ( army intelligence & para militaries & informaers are not innocent civilians)..a classic examble is airport attack.

So the army has started & how LTTE is going to respond????

If i remember corectly, the massacre at mahabodhi & bombing in dehiwela station/central bank were claimed by LTTE as responses for army's terrorism such as navaly church bombings.

So may god help the innocents in south now....which includes me too.

THE_ACA_USR wrote:

amaka wrote:

This is serious accusation for SLA. If this incident took place as mentioned in the news article, this sort of brutal tactics does not cool down the situation in the region.
If these youths are really belongs to terrorist groups, they could be taken into the custody for further investigations without imposing full force on them and killing them.

Please don't cry much after killing students. So, this is the terrorized government. No one in the world will concern about this. This is happening since 1950's. How the tamils can get justice. I lost few of my friends on the way to school, before 1983. Army killed them without any reason and the next day SL radio news says SLA killed terrorist. No one in the world knows the reality. But people like you say that tamils in SL do not have any problems. Did you ever thought that how much we suffer such wordings you use??????
Please never talk if you do not know the reality..

I can understand your feeling being a witness to your friends death who killed by SLA. (this event to be real you must have seen the incident by  your eyes-that is what you called reality I suppose. Unless I could have told these killing was done by some other Tamil militant group that was active at that time.)

Anyway,

Most of the killing going on in the country has been credited to the account of SLA. If there are no one to kill I don’t think there should be a army. Armies all over the world kill someone that they are supposed to kill. Irrespective of the country, armies killed people. US/UK/Italian/French/Japan armies Iraq militant, Indian army Kashmir separatist, Nepal Mao guerrillas, Russia Chechnya separatist, and many more….
All the countries in the world has armies and their duty is to protect the land boundaries of the country. Protecting mean, killing anybody who try to break the land boundaries and  same thing happening in Sri Lanka. As I mentioned many occasion SLA act equally in anywhere in the country. When I sow how brutal can be a trained army of a country, I realized best thing is not to do something that lead to unleashed the army. So best thing in north east also to give up their weapon and send the army back to barrack or send them for other jobs. Now all over the world knows that there is a problem in Sri Lanka that initiated between two races, so GOSL will have to come up with a better solution to answer the issue even if the war ended.