{"id":113603,"date":"2013-11-06T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113603"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T12:50:23","slug":"wikileaks-govt-restricted-blood-bags-icrc-stopped-counting-dead-children-because-no-blood-available-icrc-to-us-mission-to-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-govt-restricted-blood-bags-icrc-stopped-counting-dead-children-because-no-blood-available-icrc-to-us-mission-to-un\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: Govt. Restricted Blood Bags, ICRC Stopped Counting Dead Children Because No Blood Available &#8211; ICRC To US Mission To UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;De Maio was more critical of the GSL&#8217;s restrictions on humanitarian access and relief during the conflict. There was no good reason not to let certain types of materials, such as blood bags, be delivered to Vanni during the conflict, where ICRC was treating victims.&#8221; the US Mission to UN informed Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-govt-restricted-blood-bags-icrc-stopped-counting-dead-children-because-no-blood-available-icrc-to-us-mission-to-un\/sri-lanka-children-injured\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113612\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-113612\" title=\"sri-lanka-children-injured\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sri-lanka-children-injured-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sri-lanka-children-injured-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sri-lanka-children-injured.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/category\/wikileaks\/\">WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The \u201cConfidential\u201d cable discuses\u00a0what had happened on the ground during and since the conflict.\u00a0The cable was signed by the US Ambassador to Geneva\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Clint+Williamson&amp;x=14&amp;y=8\">Clint Williamson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on July 15, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting with Jacque de Maio, ICRC Head of Operations for South Asia on July 9, 2009, just two months after the war,the Ambassador wrote; &#8221;\u00a0He had stopped counting the number of children who died because no blood was available, for example.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other related stories to this cable;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: It\u2019s Not Genocide, Army Could Have Won The Battle With Higher Civilian And Less Army Casualties \u2013 ICRC To US Mission To UN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-its-not-genocide-army-could-have-won-the-battle-with-higher-civilian-and-less-army-casualties-icrc-to-us-mission-to-un\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: It\u2019s Not Genocide, Army Could Have Won The Battle With Higher Civilian And Less Army Casualties \u2013 ICRC To US Mission To UN<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"WikiLeaks: LTTE Stored Weapons At Hospitals \u2013 ICRC To US Mission To UN\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-ltte-stored-weapons-at-hospitals-icrc-to-us-mission-to-un\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WikiLeaks: LTTE Stored Weapons At Hospitals \u2013 ICRC To US Mission To UN<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":113612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories","category-wikileaks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WikiLeaks: Govt. 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