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The United Nations said Aug. 31 it will keep its aid workers in Sri Lanka, despite claims by an EU truce-monitoring team that Sri Lankan soldiers killed 17 workers from a French nongovernmental organization (NGO). As the civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam re-ignites, the threat to civilians -- both native and foreign -- is increasing.
The bodies of 15 NGO workers were found Aug. 6 in the town of Muttur near the port of Trincomalee in northeast Sri Lanka. The workers, ethnic Tamil employees of the French nonprofit relief organization Action Against Hunger (ACF), reportedly had been lined up and shot execution-style by Sri Lankan troops after a long battle for the town. Two days later, two more dead aid workers were found in a car, apparently killed while trying to flee the area. The victims, aged between 24 and 54, all were wearing distinctive ACF shirts that clearly identified them as aid workers, the AFC said.
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