Srilanka, Aug. 5 -- UN experts have urged the Government of Sri Lanka to ensure, without further delay, truth, justice and reparation for the families of the humanitarian workers killed 20 years ago in the town of Muttur.



On 4 August 2006, amid intensifying hostilities between the Sri Lankan Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), 17 national Action Against Hunger (ACF) humanitarian workers were found executed at their compound in Muttur, most of them with gunshot wounds to the head. ACF was the only international NGO still providing water, sanitation and hygiene services to the local population at the time.



"The victims were not combatants. They were humanitarian workers providing life-saving assistance to civilian...