"Bloodbath" in Sri Lanka

As many as 1,000 Sri Lankan civilians were killed this weekend in what the UN called a "bloodbath."

Two days of shelling across Sri Lanka's northern war zone killed at least 430 ethnic Tamil civilians — and likely as many as 1,000 — a government doctor in the area said Monday. The United Nations branded the attacks a "bloodbath."

With the civilian death toll skyrocketing in the civil war, a coalition of international human rights groups called for the U.N. Security Council to urgently hold talks on the conflict.

(Some of the previous posts on Sri Lanka: Obama's First Humanitarian Crisis, Sri Lanka Chronology, The Security Council's Failures in Sri Lanka.