Hindu Terrorists kill 11 Muslims in Sri Lanka/Tamil vs SL conflict (merged)
In another sign of the brutality that Hindus show towards Muslims.
Hindu Terrorists also known as LTTE or Talim Tigers hacked to death 11 Muslims with mechettes.
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Sri_Lanka/10068512.html
Lankan military says Tamil Tigers hacked 11 Muslim civilians to death
AP
Colombo: The bodies of 11 Muslim men were found hacked to death in a remote jungle in eastern Sri Lanka yesterday, the military said, blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the killings.
The men were repairing an irrigation system on Sunday when they were attacked, said chief military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe. One man survived the massacre and is being treated in a hospital, he said.
The slayings came amid an upsurge in violence in the island nation that could undermine efforts by European mediators to bring the warring sides back to peace talks.
A pro-rebel website, TamilNet, said the killings may have resulted from a dispute between majority ethnic Sinhalese and minority Muslims over land and water rights. It said two men were still missing.
Minority
Muslims are Sri Lanka’s second-largest minority after ethnic Tamils, who are mostly Hindu, and generally oppose the Tamil Tigers, who have accused Muslims of supporting the government. The rebels also oppose Muslims cultivating land in areas they consider Tamil territory.
A special police task force was searching the area, 250 km east of Colombo, for rebel activity, Samarasinghe said. Muslim residents closed their shops as they prepared for funeral services.
Separately, a Sri Lankan soldier was killed and another wounded in an overnight attack by suspected rebels in the country’s troubled north, the military said.
Government troops exchanged small arms fire with rebels in the Jaffna Peninsula, said an officer at the Defence Ministry’s Media Centre for National Security who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly.
It was not immediately clear whether the rebels suffered any casualties.