Candles are burnt in front of the photographs of 17 slain humanitarian workers from the French aid group Action Contre La Faim at their memorial in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, August 11, 2006. REUTERS/Buddhika Weerasinghe
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was a massacre that shocked the world's humanitarian community.
Seventeen aid workers were killed outside their office in Sri Lanka's northeast - executed at point-blank range with automatic weapons in one of the worst attacks on humanitarians.
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