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§ LTTE refused to permit some 330,000 fellow Tamils to flee away from zone of conflict § LTTE used them as human shields § GOSL declared area as safe civilian (no fire zone) to protect innocent civilians but LTTE refused to agree to its creation. This he says constitutes prima facie evidence of LTTE’s intent to use civilians/civilian objects for its military campaign. § LTTE embedded its heavy artillery within the NFZ and intentionally shelled Sri Lankan positions from amidst civilian population § Using civilians Prof. Newton says is ‘roughly comparable to the war crime of ...