Information About Incident 67342-137675-349425 in Colombo Sri Lanka

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The U.S. Embassy in Colombo on January 9 in its official Twitter account posted a photo of the Ambassador Michele Sison and the visiting Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, in the Office of Global Criminal Justice at the Department of States Stephen J. Rapp standing at the site and captioned the photo as St Antony's Ground - site of January 2009 killing of hundreds of families by army shelling.

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Army on January 9 rejected a United States (US) claim that the Army shelling had killed hundreds of families at St Antony's Ground, Iranapallai in the North as completely 'baseless', reports Colombo Page. The U.S. Embassy in Colombo on January 9 in its official Twitter account posted a photo of the Ambassador Michele Sison and the visiting Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, in the Office of Global Criminal Justice at the Department of States Stephen J. Rapp standing at the site and captioned the photo as St Antony's Ground - site of January 2009 killing of hundreds of families by army shelling.

Event ID Date Country Storyhead
67342-137675-349425 1/10/2014 Sri Lanka Army rejects US claim that Army shelling killed hundreds of families in North

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