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Denying allegations of mass scale civilian casualties by the Government, Gotabhaya Rajapakse said, With the visuals we received from the UAVs of the Sri Lanka Air Force it was proved beyond doubt that it is the LTTE who have killed and injured innocent civilians who were trying to escape.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
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injure the LTTE who innocent civilians who were trying to escapeThis data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.
Meanwhile, commenting on the US request that the LTTE surrender to a third party, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse told Sunday Observer that the outfit should be made to surrender only to the Government of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan people had suffered from terrorism and it is our people who were killed by the LTTE. It is not fair for a foreign country to request that the LTTE be allowed to surrender to an outside party, he said, adding, This is an internal matter and we, as the Government, can assure that the problem can be settled internally. Assuring the evacuation of each and every person trapped inside the NFZ, Rajapakse said the ongoing military operations will continue until Prabhakaran is caught and till the Army completely captures the land. Almost 98% of the civilians trapped inside the `No Fire Zone have reached the cleared areas and the humanitarian operations of the Sri Lanka Army will be to liberate these people as their first priority, Rajapakse added. The Defence Secretary confirmed that irrespective of LTTE propaganda, the mission to rescue people trapped in the NFZ will continue. Denying allegations of mass scale civilian casualties by the Government, Gotabhaya Rajapakse said, With the visuals we received from the UAVs of the Sri Lanka Air Force it was proved beyond doubt that it is the LTTE who have killed and injured innocent civilians who were trying to escape.
| Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38020-72427-173690 | 4/27/2009 | Sri Lanka | 40 LTTE militants killed as troops capture Valayarmadam area in No Fire Zone |
The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.
Note: incidences are geocoded by the district centroid.
In the same newspaper clipping is further information on the events:
| Event ID | Date | Country | Act | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38020-72423-173676 | 4/27/2009 | Sri Lanka | surrender | Kalutara |
| 38020-72427-173684 | 4/27/2009 | Sri Lanka | surrender | Mannar |
| 38020-72427-173690 | 4/27/2009 | Sri Lanka | injure | Mannar |