UPDATE: US Embassy tweet claims army shelling killed hundreds of families
January 9, 2014 04:24 pm
The US Embassy in Colombo claimed in a tweet today (January 9) that two top US Ambassadors had visited the site of the“killing of hundreds of families by army shelling” in January 2009.
US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Michele Sison
and US
Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice Stephen Rapp are engaged in a visit to
the North of Sri Lanka where they also visited St. Anthany’s Ground.
The official twitter account of the US Embassy to Sri Lanka claimed in a tweet that this was the site of the “Jan 2009 killing of hundreds of families by army shelling” which was accompanied by a photograph of the two Ambassadors.
Tweet – “St Anthany’s Ground - site of Jan 2009 killing of hundreds of families by army shelling”
Speaking to Ada Derana, Juliana Spaven, the Information Officer for the US Embassy in Sri Lanka, confirmed that the tweet was sent on an official capacity while adding however that there is no new additional evidence to back the claim.
