UN says 6,500 killed in Sri Lanka in past three months
The United Nations says that nearly 6,500 civilians have been killed and 14,000 wounded in fighting in Sri Lanka over the past three months, it was disclosed today.
The figures are contained in a UN document circulated among diplomatic missions in Sri Lanka in recent days and given to a journalist today. The UN has declined to publicly release its casualty figures.
The quarter-century civil war has flared in recent months as government forces pushed to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels in their remaining territory in the north.
According to the UN figures, 6,432 civilians have been killed in the fighting since January 20 and another 13,946 have been wounded.
