SLMM reports that nearly 4,000 people have been killed in Sri Lanka in the previous 15 months, compared with 130 conflict deaths from the signing of the Ceasefire Agreement until the end of 2005. Total conflict related deaths: 69,000.
Sources
Military contradicts SLMM report on civilian killings, The Island, 23 March 2007; SLMM backs down on breakdown, Associated News, 12 March 2007;
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January 2002
