Comments on: 4 August 2006 http://pact.lk/4-august-2006/ The interactive timeline of conflict in Sri Lanka Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: kannan http://pact.lk/4-august-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-89 kannan Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:40:29 +0000 http://pact.lk/2008/03/22/4-august-2006/#comment-89 ACF decides to withdraw its operations from Sri Lanka, following the decision earlier of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IGGEP) to resign from its mandate to oversee the Commission of Inquiry's probe, inter alia, into the killing of 17 ACF employees. In its statement ACF said: "Everything was consciously and brutally planned. The victims were kneeling, unarmed and defenceless. The culprits of this massacre are the ones who were carrying the arms. We can assert that this massacre is a war crime in violation of the Geneva Conventions. “ACF carries out its role in regions like Darfur and Chechnya, but no accident such as the one that happened in Mutur has ever been reported." Source: <a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=12283" rel="nofollow">ACF quits in disgust</a>, Daily Mirror, 19 April 2008. ACF decides to withdraw its operations from Sri Lanka, following the decision earlier of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IGGEP) to resign from its mandate to oversee the Commission of Inquiry’s probe, inter alia, into the killing of 17 ACF employees.

In its statement ACF said: “Everything was consciously and brutally planned. The victims were kneeling, unarmed and defenceless. The culprits of this massacre are the ones who were carrying the arms. We can assert that this massacre is a war crime in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

“ACF carries out its role in regions like Darfur and Chechnya, but no accident such as the one that happened in Mutur has ever been reported.”

Source: ACF quits in disgust, Daily Mirror, 19 April 2008.

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