Abdul H. Azeez, from the Sunday Leader, 24 April 2011
It was May 2009, the Sri Lanka Army was advancing fast under heavy fire. The LTTE, or what remained of them were giving no quarter as the battles intensified. Things got ugly, and civilians died. After the dust settled, no one knew quite what happened. The winners rejoiced, while the losers were eliminated. But unbeknownst to the people on the ground, there were watchers far above in the skies recording their every move.
Between May 6 and May 10, 2009, thousands of IDP structures were removed from the CSZ, Analysis Area – The CSZ in northeastern Sri Lanka is shown in blue. The area covered by the AAAS analysis is outlined in red., Shell approach, and mortar positions – or each crater, the likely path of the approaching shell was derived based on eject a patterns. , 342 graves (estimated) at this location. Image © 2009 GeoEye, Susan Wolfinbarger and Rohan Samarajiva.
The pictures obtained by these satellites found their way through to various companies, governments and human rights organisations. They wormed their way through quagmires of bureaucracies and nongovernmental organisations and research firms. They ended up on the desks of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) where a researcher named Lars Bromley started taking a closer look at them. And from there they ended up on a United Nations probe report, silently accusing the Sri Lankan government of war crimes. “New grave sites appeared everyday in the photos,” says Susan Wolfinbarger, now head of the AAAS’s Science and Human Rights Programme, the department that Bromley used to lead. “We did identify 1,346 individual graves, as well as bombshell craters, destruction of many structures, and identified mortar positions that were assumed to be of the Sri Lankan army.” “In our report, we provide the technical details for analysis that was conducted regarding the impact craters from shelling and how the patterns left on the ground by their impact can trace the flight trajectory back toward its origin” says Wolfinbarger, speaking of the methodology used. “Our analysis of these trajectories led to probable mortar locations of the Sri Lankan Army. We additionally identified the removal of thousands of IDP structures that were located in the civilian safety zone.”
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