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Mulivaikal massacre in 2009 also called War without Witness refers to the slaughter of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils in the Final or Closing Stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War ending in May 2009 in a tiny strip of land in Mullivaikkal, Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka designated as a no fire zone by the Sri Lankan Government in which over 40000 Tamils were killed .[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

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  2. "The broken survivors of Sri Lanka's civil war". Frances Harrison. BBC. 11 October 2012. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-19843977. Retrieved 16 September 2015. 
  3. "Sri Lanka: Satellite imagery of safe zone". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8016965.stm. Retrieved 16 September 2015. 
  4. "UN 'failed Sri Lanka civilians', says internal probe". Lyse Doucet. BBC. 13 November 2012. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20308610. Retrieved 16 September 2015. 
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  6. "Revisiting May 2009 - Civilians walk into SL camps after thousands killed in night of shelling, surrendering LTTE leadership killed, Tamils blockade Westminster". Tamil Guardian. 18 May 2015. http://www.tamilguardian.com/article.asp?articleid=9905. Retrieved 16 September 2015. 
  7. "U.N. Report Urges Sri Lanka to Set Up War Crimes Tribunal". Wall Street Journal. 16 September 2015. http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-report-urges-sri-lanka-to-set-up-war-crimes-tribunal-1442410248. Retrieved 16 September 2015. 
  8. "Tamil leaders honor dead from Sri Lankan war at battle zone". Krishan Francis. Yahoo News. 18 May 2015. http://news.yahoo.com/tamil-leaders-honor-dead-sri-lankan-war-battle-114725796.html. Retrieved 16 September 2015. 
  9. "British envoy banned in war without witnesses". The Independent. 14 February 2009. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/british-envoy-banned-in-war-without-witnesses-1609188.html. Retrieved 16 September 2015. 
  10. "Sri Lanka Massacred Tens of Thousands of Tamils While the World Looked Away". Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. 11 August 2015. http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/sri-lanka-massacred-tens-thousands-tamils-while-world-looked-away. Retrieved 16 September 2015. 
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