Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Monday, November 12, 2012

BBC

Questions remain over Sri Lanka's prison 'massacre'



Sri Lanka's opposition has said that the deaths of dozens of prisoners, killed during clashes at a prison in the capital was a massacre.
A spokesman for the main opposition party said that the 27 inmates who died at Colombo's Welikada prison were "gunned down".
The government says they were killed in exchanges of fire during a riot after prisoners obtained and fired weapons.
The incident is the bloodiest prison violence in nearly three decades.
Charles Haviland reports.

Sri Lanka's prison clash 'a massacre'

Prisoners on the roof of the Welikada prison