Reporting on Sri Lanka a contrast with Israel

Not referred to on the BBC news home page (UK version) but rather hidden away on the South Asia area is this report that:

"At least 378 people have been killed by fierce shelling from the Sri Lankan army in the past 24 hours, a health official has told the BBC.

The doctor, working in the northern conflict zone, said 1,122 others had been injured - and more bodies were on beaches and by the sides of roads.

The army denies shelling the designated "safe zone" for civilians, and blames any deaths on Tamil Tiger rebels.

The claims are impossible to verify as reporters are banned from the war zone.

But the BBC's Charles Haviland, in Colombo, says a steady stream of information coming from the area suggests that civilians are being killed. "

Why is this being reported so quietly whilst an equivalent incident in Israel/Gaza would have been headline news subjected to endless coverage and vituperation?


Thanks to Biased-BBC for the spot.