{"id":3821,"date":"2025-12-09T19:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:20:31","slug":"slaf-bombing-of-tro-idp-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/slaf-bombing-of-tro-idp-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"SLAF Bombing of TRO IDP Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 1:30 and 1:55 am on Saturday 29 November 2008 the TRO<br>Kallaru Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp (also called:<br>Tharumapuram Kallaru Ranimayanathan Scheme or Ulavanoor<br>Kudiyiruppu settlement) was bombed by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF).<br>The SLAF dropped 16 Russian made cluster bombs killing two civilians (a<br>5 year old child and an 80 year old man) and injuring 19 others (10<br>children were among the injured). A 77-year-old woman lost her left arm<br>and a 39-year-old man lost his left leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) ordered departure of the UN and<br>international NGOs from the Vanni on 15 September 2008 has removed the<br>independent, international witness to attacks such as these against civilians.<br>TRO appeals to the international community and the Tamil Diaspora to<br>pressure the GoSL to allow the UN and international NGOs to return to the<br>Vanni on a permanent basis so that they may provide humanitarian<br>assistance to the 300,000 IDPs, conduct needs assessments, and serve as a<br>witness to the sufferings of and attacks on Tamil civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The temporary housing settlement that was attacked on 29 November was<br>constructed and is maintained by TRO and local NGO REERDO for<br>families that had been displaced due to the Government of Sri Lanka\u2019s<br>(GoSL) ongoing military offensive into the Vanni. The settlement was set<br>up in an area that the GoSL had declared to be a \u201csafe zone\u201d at the<br>beginning of November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These IDPs were also affected by Cyclone Nisha\u2019s floodwaters last week<br>and were being provided with cooked food and other support by TRO.<br>After the bombing, TRO helped to transport the injured to hospitals in the<br>area. TRO also covered the expenses of the funeral and the final rites for the<br>two persons killed in the bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"881\" data-id=\"3822\" src=\"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11-.jpg 710w, https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11--242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/11--10x12.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"877\" src=\"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/22.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/22.jpg 713w, https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/22-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/22-10x12.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1:30 and 1:55 am on Saturday 29 November 2008 the TROKallaru Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp (also called:Tharumapuram Kallaru Ranimayanathan Scheme or UlavanoorKudiyiruppu settlement) was bombed by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF).The SLAF dropped 16 Russian made cluster bombs killing two civilians (a5 year old child and an 80 year old man) and injuring 19 others (10children were among the injured). A 77-year-old woman lost her left armand a 39-year-old man lost his left leg. The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) ordered departure of the UN andinternational NGOs from the Vanni on 15 September 2008 has removed theindependent, international witness to attacks such as these against civilians.TRO appeals to the international community and the Tamil Diaspora topressure the GoSL to allow the UN and international NGOs to return to theVanni on a permanent basis so that they may provide humanitarianassistance to the 300,000 IDPs, conduct needs assessments, and serve as awitness to the sufferings of and attacks on Tamil civilians. The temporary housing settlement that was attacked on 29 November wasconstructed and is maintained by TRO and local NGO REERDO forfamilies that had been displaced due to the Government of Sri Lanka\u2019s(GoSL) ongoing military offensive into the Vanni. The settlement was setup in an area that the GoSL had declared to be a \u201csafe zone\u201d at thebeginning of November. These IDPs were also affected by Cyclone Nisha\u2019s floodwaters last weekand were being provided with cooked food and other support by TRO.After the bombing, TRO helped to transport the injured to hospitals in thearea. TRO also covered the expenses of the funeral and the final rites for thetwo persons killed in the bombing.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_view_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[633],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-tro-bombing-kfir-30sec2remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3824,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/3824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/30sec2remember.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}