Aid workers targeted in Sri Lanka
Seventeen Sri Lankan aid workers are killed execution style. Ambulances are blown off the road. Relief groups are cut off from tens of thousands of displaced villagers. Sri Lanka’s resurgent civil conflict is shaping up to be among the most dangerous for humanitarian workers in recent years, aid agencies say. Air strikes, gunbattles and artillery duels threaten rescue workers nearly every day and have forced several international agencies to suspend operations. Full Story