http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/27/world/AP-AS-Sri-Lanka-Civil-War.html
MULLAITTIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) -- At least 300 civilians were wounded and scores feared killed by Sri Lankan army artillery shells fired into a designated ''safe zone'' for ethnic Tamils trapped by fighting between the military and Tamil rebels, a health official alleged Tuesday.
Weber: The day after Israel's military accidentally shelled a U.N school in Gaza, I was talking with an friend of mine who said that "everything will change tomorrow" meaning that this tragedy would finally (hopefully he thought) turn the world against Israel. (I'm not sure how much farther the world could turn against Israel, but never mind that now.)
Yet there has been no outrage, no cries of condemnation, no front page or lead story on what has been happening in Sri Lanka. Is there really a difference between the two? For those of you who have not followed the conflict it has been going on for over twenty five years and has cost 70,000 lives. The Tamil Tigers (this region's equivalent of the PLO or Hamas) were actually the group that orignated the tactic of suicide bombing.
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