 According to - Sri Lanka's killing fields - "Truth" or "Hype", UN's in-country Human Rights Advisor Cynthia Veliko has reported to the US embassy that "Pillay had not alerted the government that she would be issuing the statement prior to its release - a break with the normal procedure of raising issues privately before going public", furthermore, Pillay is said to have indicated to a Sri Lankan government delegation, when confronted, she was willing to retract her statement, if the government enabled her to send staff to ascertain the facts.This attempt by Pillay on the government of Sri Lanka, coupled with her outcry ""... range of credible sources have indicated that more than 2,800 civilians may have been killed and more than 7,000 injured since January 20, many of them inside the no-fire zones.The casualties are believed to include hundreds of children killed..."", without any qualification tantamount to "extortion", when assessed with the US Embassy position on the casualty no contained in the said document, where Ambassador Blake report the following to the State Department ""The Tamil National Alliance parliamentary group issued a statement claiming over 2,150 civilians have been killed by bombing campaigns carried out by the Sri Lankan armed forces since January 1, 2009.