In Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tiger rebels said on Wednesday that an intense fighting in the northern war zone was killing and wounding hundreds of civilians a day and appealed to the U.N. to push for urgent shipments of food and medicine to the area.
The Sri Lankan forces have cornered the ''ex-powerful'' rebel group into a tiny piece of land on the northeast coast along with tens of thousands of civilians.
The Secretary General of the U.N. Ban Ki-Moon said to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a phone call on Tuesday to suspend the offensive to allow aid into the war zone. Rajapaksa has said no to calls for a cease-fire, saying that a truce would give the rebels a chance to regroup.
In a letter addressed to Ban Ki-Moon, a rebel political leader Balasingham Nadesan said to the international community to pressure the government to allow aid into the region.
By: Eugene Jiveke
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