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Wednesday 06 April 2011

Sri Lanka gallery

A captured Tamil boy and alleged combatant with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) inside the 'no-fire zone', May 2009.

More of the group of alleged LTTE fighters captured by Sri Lankan armed forces and photographed by a soldier, May 2009.

100,000 civilians were said to have been trapped in the 'no-fire zone'. The LTTE refused to let them leave while Sri Lankan shells rained down.

Sri Lankan armed forces display weapons captured from the defeated LTTE, from small arms to field guns, howitzers - even tanks

A wider shot of some alleged combatants captured by the Sri Lankan army, whose soldiers stand over the vanquished insurgents.

Unexploded mortar round in the 'no-fire zone'. A figure of more than 30,000 civilian dead is plausible.

A Tamil man mourns his wife, killed by a mortar in their makeshift home, May 2009.

A bereaved daughter mourns her mother's death. These pictures, carefully documented by an aid worker, depict terrible human suffering.

Terror on the faces of Tamils under fire in the 'no-fire zone'. A mass exodus preceded the final showdown, but many civilians could not leave.civilians could not leave.

Anti-personnel mines captured from the LTTE. The Tigers also stand accused of grave breaches of humanitarian law and war crimes.

The body of Velupellai Prabakharan, the Tamil Tiger leader, killed and paraded by Sri Lankan forces on 18 May 2009.

Photo 1/11 A captured Tamil boy and alleged combatant with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) inside the 'no-fire zone', May 2009.

A photo gallery from Sri Lanka's war with the Tamil Tigers