POLITICS - Health officials in Sri Lanka's northern war zone says 40 civilians are killed every day and more than 100 others wounded in the fight between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Civilians in the area have been suffering heavy casualties for three to four weeks and there is even whispers of genocide in isolated villages.Dr. Thurairajah Varatharajah says the makeshift hospital he is running out of a school in the coastal town of Putumattalan is overwhelmed by the casualties. Most of his doctors and nurses have fled the war zone and the facility is running out of some essential medicines.
Aid groups have estimated more than 200,000 civilians are trapped in a tiny strip of land still controlled by the rebels along the northeastern coast. The Sri Lankan military and the rebels deny attacking civilians, but reports from aid workers, health officials and evacuees implicate both sides.
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