Remembering Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
Until now, the world has paid almost no attention to the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009, where at least 10,000 civilians, and possibly as many as 40,000, were slaughtered in a tiny area called "the cage." One aspect of the story, now just emerging, is the failure of UN officials on the ground to publicize what was happening.
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NEW YORK – One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world’s collective conscience. We remember and acknowledge the shame of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. We agonize about the failure to halt the atrocities being committed almost daily in Syria. But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.