08/29/2011
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Al Jazeera
The civil war is over in Sri Lanka, but many men suspected of being Tamil Tiger fighters continue to be detained.
08/19/2011
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Al Jazeera
Sri Lanka's long-running conflict was brutal for its women.
More than 80,000 are said to have been widowed in war-affected areas of the island nation.
The peace that came with the end of the civil war has brought little discernible improvement to their lives.
The situation is especially bad for young women, who told Al Jazeera about rapes and sexual exploitation - in some cases by government officials and the military.
Steve Chao was granted special permission to report in the still sensitive area of northern Sri Lanka.
08/18/2011
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Al Jazeera
Two years after the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, many minority Tamils in the north say the military retains too strong a hold over their daily lives.
Al Jazeera was granted special permission by the government to travel and see how the path to peace is progressing.
Steve Chao reports from Jaffna, the capital of Northern Province.
07/13/2011
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Al Jazeera
Sri Lanka's civil war came to an end in 2009, but many online say now problems facing the country's Tamil minority are going unnoticed.
01/29/2011
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Al Jazeera
Recent flooding in eastern Sri Lanka destroyed thousands of homes, devastated the rice crop and drowned thousands of livestock. A million people, 40 per cent of them children, are at risk of serious hunger as a result. Some of the worst-affected areas were only just recovering from decades of conflict and the tsunami when the floods hit, and the people who live there are facing their third humanitarian emergency in less than 10 years.
11/10/2010
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Al Jazeera
WARNING: Some viewers may find the footage in the report disturbing
Al Jazeera has obtained photographs that appear to show Sri Lankan army soldiers abusing Tamil civilians in the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war.
The pictures show various graphic scenes, with dead bodies blindfolded and hands bound, shot through the head and mounds of bodies on the back of a farmer's trailer.
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