15 Murdered Aid Workers Exhumed
October 18, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
The bodies of 15 aid workers have been exhumed in an ongoing investigation into the mass murder of farm and water-sanitation experts in northeast Sri Lanka, reports The Australian.
Seventeen volunteers—13 men and four women—with the Paris organization Action Against Hunger were gunned down on August 4. Two of the bodies had already been removed to Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital, and the rest will now follow.
The killings occurred during a flare-up in violence between the government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which technically have agreed to a cease-fire. Truce monitors have blamed the Sri Lankan government for the killing, although the government denies involvement.
