http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4906190/13069494
Hundreds of dead bodies and wounded civilians were still lying in Maaththa'lan and Pokka'nai, and more than 600 seriously wounded have been brought to a makeshift hospital, functioning at a school in Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal, in LTTE held area throughout Monday, TamilNet correspondent reports from Vanni.
The correspondent personally witnessed nearly 300 dead bodies while fleeing from the area.
Cluster shells and smoke or white-dust-emitting shells, that made people to faint were widely deployed on civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in its effort to capture them.
However, a large majority of the civilians fled towards LTTE held areas while around 8,000 were trapped and captured by the Sri Lankan Army .
Only 60 wounded went to the hospital at Puthumaaththa'lan, which is almost not functioning at the moment. The hospital at Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal comes under Mullaiththeevu Regional Director of Health Services.
By Monday afternoon, the Sri Lankan Army was pushed back from parts of the civilian areas it had boxed earlier in the day.
However, civilians fear waves of attacks similar to the one on Monday to follow in the forthcoming days.
The exact condition of the civilians captured by the Sri Lankan Army is not known.
Meanwhile, schools in Northern Province scheduled to start after term holidays on Tuesday were ordered by Colombo not to be re-opened until further orders.
It is speculated that the Sri Lanka government plans to accommodate captured civilians in the schools.
in other words sla used chemical weapons that would render everyone unconscious! did they then go in and shoot everybody carrying a gun when they were unconscious? cowards! all part of the billions in chinese weaponry that was given to sla in return for right of communist chinese seaport in sri lanka!
no wonder sla swept across the island so quickly. they committed every human rights crime in the book. i demand immedeate international intervention to save innocents! were indians involved too?
andyfedel 2 years ago