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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

ICRC warns of LTTE disinformation campaign

COLOMBO: The International Committee of the Red Cross yesterday unravelled a ploy by the pro LTTE website TamilNet to make use of the ICRC to add weight to the canard spread by it accusing the SLAF of bombing an LTTE orphanage in Mullaithivu.

In an internal correspondence ICRC information head Davide Vignati has in an Email stated that the LTTE was using a quote by the ICRC made in 1999, where the ICRC deplored a bombing incident carried out in a civilian area in an attempt to give credence to the canard.

For more info, please read: http://www.dailynews.lk/2006/08/16/sec02.asp

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