(CNN) -- Nearly 400 people were killed overnight Saturday by government shelling in what is supposed to be a "no-fire" zone of Sri Lanka, a humanitarian worker in the area told CNN on Sunday.
[Video Inside]Heavy shelling resumed again at 6 PM while people still mourning the death of their kith and kin and couldn't come out from the agony, said Tamil National Reporter speaking at 9 PM on Sunday. According to latest report more than 50 killed and many others injured within few hours. Many civilian settlements and vehicles were burning.
The overnight artillery barrage, the bloodiest ever demonstrated the Sinhala cruelty on Tamils, the world that preach reconciliation must see the atrocities of state terror and decide for themselves whether reconciliation is possible after this blood bath. Some faces of the dead bodies remind us the children waiting for gruel yesterday in the queue, today they are laying on the ground in blood.
More than 2,000 innocent civilians have been killed in the last 24 hours. The wholesale bombardment by Sri Lankan planes and shelling on a densely populated, non combatant civilian safe zone is state terrorism and a war crime. The international community and UN have an obligation to protect the Tamil people facing genocidal aggression directed in a manner against all international humanitarian laws, said S. Pathmanathan, Head of LTTE's International Diplomatic Relations in a statement released today, Sunday May 10.
Doctors at the French field hospital said they had seen a number of horrific burn injuries, including "some with white hands, possibly caused by burns from phosphorus," an incendiary weapon which is banned from use in civilian areas under an international convention, AFP reported on Sunday May 10.
Tamil National warned that thousands of lives are at risk in its situation report on Saturday. What we feared became reality, while the world was sleeping, Sri Lankan Army pounded the safe zone with shells and bombs making Sunday the blood day of the world. A heavy barrage of shelling by the Sri Lanka Army on the 'safe zone' that started at Saturday night 7.00 PM continued till Sunday morning slaughtering more than 3,000 civilians. The casualty includes hundreds of children and women. Health staff inside safe zone confirmed the mass slaughter quoting the injured who managed to reach the makeshift hospital.
