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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.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
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Colombo
kill
by army shelling
of hundreds of families
This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.
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 |
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67342-137675-349425 | 1/10/2014 | Sri Lanka | Army rejects US claim that Army shelling killed hundreds of families in North |
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 |
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67342-137675-349424 | 1/10/2014 | Sri Lanka | kill | Matale |
67342-137675-349425 | 1/10/2014 | Sri Lanka | kill | Colombo |