{"id":10247,"date":"2009-04-18T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesamnet.co.uk\/?p=10247"},"modified":"2009-04-18T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T18:58:17","slug":"sri-lanka-trapped-and-under-fire-hrws-photo-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/?p=10247","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Trapped and Under Fire : HRW&#8217;s Photogenic Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesamnet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hrw-logo.jpg\" title=\"HRW Logo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thesamnet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hrw-logo.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"HRW Logo\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/en\/features\/sri-lanka-trapped-and-under-fire\">http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/en\/features\/sri-lanka-trapped-and-under-fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch researcher Anna Neistat says both sides in Sri Lanka&#8217;s conflict are violating the laws of war. Approximately 100,000 civilians are trapped in a government-declared &#8220;no-fire zone&#8221; in the northern Vanni region. Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels have prevented civilians from leaving a tiny strip of land, while government forces have repeatedly and indiscriminately shelled the area.<\/p>\n<p>These photos are from a makeshift hospital in Putumattalan that was treating survivors of attacks on April 8 and 9, 2009.\u00a0 Many were women and children who were waiting in a food distribution line in Pokkanai when artillery shells hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/en\/features\/sri-lanka-trapped-and-under-fire Human Rights Watch researcher Anna Neistat says both sides in Sri Lanka&#8217;s conflict are violating the laws of war. Approximately 100,000 civilians are trapped in a government-declared &#8220;no-fire zone&#8221; in the northern Vanni region. Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels have prevented civilians from leaving a tiny strip of land, while government forces have repeatedly and indiscriminately shelled the area. These photos are from a makeshift hospital in Putumattalan that was treating survivors of attacks on April 8 and 9, 2009.\u00a0 Many were women and children who were waiting in a food distribution line in Pokkanai when artillery shells hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesamnet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}