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released a statement that expressed "sorrow at the loss of lives" and ordered the investigation of the bombing. On 18 July 1995, the military confirmed that the church was badly damaged but said that they could not confirm the origin of the bombs that destroyed it. In 2020, Kumaratunga admitted that
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stated they exploded LTTE ammunition trucks or underground ammunition storage and that the deaths of the civilians were caused by secondary explosions of underground LTTE ammunition dumps. However, in a later report, the ICRC head in Sri Lanka, Marco Altherr, said that it was indeed bombs that had
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The Church of St. Peter and Paul in Navaly (also spelled Navali) on the Jaffna Peninsula was bombed by a Sri Lankan military aircraft on the afternoon of 9 July 1995. Several hundred Tamil civilians were taking refuge at the church and surrounding environs at the time.
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Immediate casualties were given as 65 killed and over 150 injured, including men, women and children. Eventually this figure rose to 147 killed, as many succumbed to their injuries, partly because the hospital was unable to cope with so many casualties at one time.
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fallen on the area; he further included eyewitness accounts from civilians in the area, including a priest from another church in the vicinity, that also supported this claim. Eventually the government agreed to investigate the incident.
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The Red Cross protested in the aftermath of the attack. However, this protest was brought to a close after the members involved in the protest were summoned to the Foreign Office and asked to give it up. The Sri Lankan foreign minister
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on 9 July 1995. It is estimated that at least 147 Tamil civilians, who had taken refuge from the fighting inside the church, died as a result of this incident. The victims included men, women and children.
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denied that the armed forces committed the attack and rebuked the Red Cross for issuing a statement on the basis of "so-called eye witness accounts".
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it was an Air Force bombing, albeit a mistake, and claimed that she had criticized the Air Force for it at the time.
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The Sri Lankan government initially denied any knowledge of the bombing, and then claimed it could have been
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Sivanayagam, S. Sri Lanka: Witness to History - A Journalist's Memoirs (1930-2004). 2005. p.483
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Somasundaram, D. (1997). "Abandoning Jaffna hospital: Ethical and moral dilemmas".
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refers to the bombing of the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in
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According to Daya Somasundaram, senior professor of psychiatry at
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Infobox civilian attack
considered for merging
Navaly church bombing is located in Northern Province
Navaly
Sri Lanka
Coordinates
09°42′40″N 79°59′16″E / 9.71111°N 79.98778°E / 9.71111; 79.98778
Sri Lankan Tamils
Sri Lankan Air Force
Navaly
Jaffna Peninsula
Sri Lankan Air Force
Sri Lankan Civil War
LTTE
blew up two gunboats, SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru
Sri Lanka Navy
Sri Lankan Civil War
Operation Leap Forward
University of Jaffna
war crime
International Committee of the Red Cross
Jaffna Teaching Hospital
LTTE
Commander of the Sri Lankan Air Force
Lakshman Kadirgamar
Chandrika Kumaratunga
List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces
2017 al-Jinah airstrike
Church of Saint Porphyrius airstrike

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