More than 20,000 civilians were killed in the final months of Sri Lanka's civil war -- nearly three times previous estimates, The Times newspaper in Britain reported Friday.
Per CNN’s Sara Sidner,
“I’m back in the helicopter with the U.N. delegation leaving Sri Lanka’s war torn north.
I am beside myself with frustration. We we’re given mere minutes to speak with the victims of war now living in camps.
There are more than 250,000 people in these camps and we only got to talk to two.
No matter what anybody writes from this trip it will not be sufficient.
We were hurried by the soldiers and hurried by the U.N. delegation that had a flight to catch.
I realize we would not have had much of an opportunity at all to tell the civilians’ account of the war if it wasn’t for this chance handed to us by the U.N., but as far as I’m concerned the story of the innocent caught in the middle of Sri Lanka’s war still hasn’t been told properly.”
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