The U.N Has "ordered" the Army and the Rebels , to protect the civilians !For an organization that never gets anything done during other "Humanitarian Situations !" (Darfur) that is pretty strong words , And as limp as the U.N is , why would anyone listen to them ? And Obama sounds like he is just jumping on the bandwagon of other world leaders who pipe up just to look good , All talk no action !
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged both sides in Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war to take measures to avert a humanitarian crisis and aid tens of thousands of people trapped in the war zone.
The U.N. Security Council held its first formal session on Sri Lanka and voiced grave concern over civilian deaths in the conflict, Asia's longest modern war, and ordered the army and rebels to protect civilians.
"Without urgent action this humanitarian crisis could turn into a catastrophe," Obama said at the White House as fighting intensified in the conflict.
"Now is the time to put aside some of the political issues that are involved and to put the lives of the men, women and children who are innocently caught in the cross fire, to put them first," he said.
Shelling killed a Red Cross worker inside Sri Lanka's war zone on Wednesday, and hundreds of civilians were reported killed on Sunday and Monday in artillery barrages as troops attacked a narrow strip of land controlled by the Tigers, who want a separate state for minority Tamils.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, rebels are cornered in a coastal strip with tens of thousands of civilians, who U.N. officials say have become human shields.
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