09/20/2011
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AFP
"Tamils from across Europe demonstrated at the UN's European headquarters on Monday, calling for a probe into alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lanka at the end of the country's 2009 civil war."
09/13/2011
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AFP, Agence France-Presse
US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake toured Sri Lanka's former war zone on Tuesday to meet students, community leaders and government officials two years after the island's civil war ended.
09/06/2011
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AFP
Sri Lanka and India have finalised a joint venture to set up a $500-million coal-powered electricity plant in the island's former war zone, the two sides announced on Tuesday.
08/16/2011
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AFP, Agence France-Presse
Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced it had clinched its largest ever single foreign investment deal by signing a $500-million contract with a Chinese-led consortium to build a new container terminal.
07/30/2011
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AFP
An ethnic Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka's formerly embattled north was brutally attacked with iron bars, police said on Saturday, the latest in a string of assaults on the nation's media.
07/21/2011
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AFP
A US congressional committee voted to ban aid to Sri Lanka unless the nation shows "accountability" over the bloodshed in the final stages of its civil war in 2009.
07/10/2011
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AFP, Agence France-Presse
A British minister visiting Sri Lanka has repeated demands that the government must investigate war crimes alleged to have been committed during the island's separatist conflict with Tamil rebels.
07/09/2011
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AFP
Sri Lanka has arrested a Briton for allegedly helping a British TV channel produce a documentary accusing Sri Lankan troops of war crimes, a media report said on Saturday.
07/06/2011
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AFP, Agence France-Presse
Sri Lanka's military said Wednesday it had original footage that exposed the "malicious intentions" behind a British documentary on alleged war crimes committed by government troops.
06/19/2011
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AFP
Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapakse has cited constitutional immunity and refused to go before a US court where he is being sued for $30 million over the killing of a Tamil man, an official said Sunday.