TamilNet: 09.11.06 UNP demands inquiry into Vaharai killings

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The UNP last month signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), main constituent of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government on identified issues giving top priority to solve the ethnic conflict. Several Tamil internally displaced people (IDP) including men, women, children and babies were killed and injured in the artillery fire launched by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on two schools where IDPs are sheltered, sources said. 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