Sri Lankan forces massacring civilians but the world that screamed at Israel over Gaza doesn't give a shit...

At least 378 people have been killed by fierce shelling from the Sri Lankan army in the past 24 hours, a health official has told the BBC. 

The doctor, working in the northern conflict zone, said 1,122 others had been injured - and more bodies were on beaches and by the sides of roads. 

The army denies shelling the designated "safe zone" for civilians, and blames any deaths on Tamil Tiger rebels. 

The claims are impossible to verify as reporters are banned from the war zone. 

But the BBC's Charles Haviland, in Colombo, says a steady stream of information coming from the area suggests that civilians are being killed. 

And he says health officials are convinced that the shells are coming from territory held by the Sri Lankan army. More...

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