Sri Lanka on alert to shoot mercy mission for Tamil Civilains
The Sri Lanka Navy has said that it has been alerted about a ship carrying the International Red Cross emblem is sailing to Sri Lanka from Britain carrying 2,000 tons of food for the Tamil civilians in the Mullaitivu district.
Sri Lanka is limiting to the amount of food being allowed into the region by continuously giving out lower numbers of people in the areas of intensified conflict, according to Tamil parliamentarians.
Naval sources in Colombo said that the Sri Lanka Navy would open fire on the vessel named ‘Vananga Man’ if she enters Lankan territorial waters.
Sri Lanka daily The Island, has published a report accusing the relief supplies are intended for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The main objective of this mercy mission to Vanni according to www.vannimission.org is, sending medical supplies, other relief items, doctors and humanitarian professionals to the area of intensified conflict in Sri Lanka to provide vitally needed humanitarian relief to 250,000 Tamil civilians, especially children, who are dying due to starvation and a lack of medicine and medical care.
This Mission will bring desperately needed humanitarian relief to the civilians enduring great hardship and suffering behind a humanitarian blockade and a media blackout, says vannimsiion.org
