A U.N. human rights expert has warned of a bloodbath in Sri Lanka unless government and rebel forces stop fighting for long enough to allow tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the war zone to flee.
The civilians are in a precarious position, huddled in a narrow "no-fire" zone on the island's northeast coast where the rebels are holed up after a series of military defeats at the hands of government troops.
More than 100,000 civilians are trapped and their lives are more at risk now that the rebels _ the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam _ have been cornered in the zone, said Walter Kaelin, an independent human rights expert appointed …
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