Former Puthukudduyiruppu hospital unharmed
Air Force Beechcraft exposes how LTTE has taken UN for ride
 Sri Lanka Air Force today (Feb 6) released a video
footage taken by a beechcraft yesterday (Feb 5) at around 1.55p.m.,
during a reconnaissance mission over Puthukudduyiruppu area. The video
footage clearly shows the buildings of the former Puthukudduyiruppu
hospital with no damages caused due to artillery fire or aerial
bombardment.
Earlier, UN officials charged the government for
attacking the hospital with "cluster bombs". However, the ill informed
UN officials were later made aware that Sri Lanka Air Force does not
possess "cluster bombs" and the hospital was actually operating under
the Health Ministry of the same government that they had levelled their
charges against.
As the LTTE terrorists positioned their artillery
batteries at the hospital premises and started firing at troops, the
government decided to move the hospital into the no fire zone demarcated
for the civilians in the area on 3rd February 2009. Since then the
hospital buildings are no longer occupied by the patients or the medical
staff. The video footage clearly shows that even after the vacating of
the hospital neither air force nor army have targeted the hospital
buildings despite the false propaganda of the LTTE.
The senior defence official speaking to defence.lk
highlighted that this was not the first instance that the LTTE has used
the "hospital strategy" to hoodwink the world. The outfit spread the
same lie around the world about the Muttur, Vakarai, Mullaittivu, and
Kilinochchi hospitals when troops had entered those areas. Later, it was
found that none of the hospitals were hit by any aerial bombardment or
artillery fire.
Related News
LTTE shells
Murunkan Government hospital - Mannar [Updated]
Terrorist fire
mortars on Madhu shrine complex |
