COLOMBO, Oct. 29 -- A damning new report released by the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) alleges that more than 300 severely wounded Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters were massacred after being left behind in a single building when the Sri Lanka Army overran Ananthapuram in April 2009.

Titled 'The Battle of Ananthapuram', the report is compiled from firsthand testimonies of survivors from the final phase of Sri Lanka's civil conflict.

According to the findings, hundreds of injured combatants had congregated at the LTTE's computer centre on the eastern edge of the besieged Ananthapuram pocket during the dying days of the battle. The report states they were left behind on April 3, 2009, and vanished without a...