09/30/2011
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Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's government on Friday released nearly 1,800 former Tamil Tiger rebels who had been held since the island nation's civil war ended more than two years ago.
09/12/2011
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Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a report by U.N. experts who concluded that tens of thousands of people were killed in the last five months of Sri Lanka's civil war, primarily by government troops, to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.
09/07/2011
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Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — A leading human rights group on Wednesday urged the United Nations to launch an independent investigation of alleged atrocities committed in the final stages of Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war, saying the country's own probe into the matter was flawed.
09/01/2011
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Associated Press
Sri Lanka will continue to detain hundreds of terror suspects and outlaw the defeated rebel Tamil Tiger group despite wartime state of emergency laws being lifted, an official said Thursday.
08/10/2011
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Associated Press
The roadblocks have been dismantled, the sandbags removed, and Sri Lanka is again a palm-fringed tourist paradise, the government says. But for ethnic Tamils living in the former war zone, it is still a hell of haunted memories, military occupation and missing loved ones.
08/03/2011
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Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An international human rights group urged the United Nations on Wednesday to investigate the execution-style slaying of 17 workers for a French aid agency in Sri Lanka five years ago, after a government probe did not identify the killers.
07/20/2011
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Associated Press
CHENNAI, India (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says India's example of multicultural democracy should serve as a model for neighboring Sri Lanka.
06/03/2011
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Associated Press
Sri Lanka's powerful Buddhist clergy demonstrated Friday urging the president to restore rights of workers and students days after a violent police crackdown on a labour protest killed one factory worker.
05/30/2011
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Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert says gruesome new footage from the final days of Sri Lanka's civil war is authentic and proves war crimes took place there, challenging the government's claim that videos showing the army executing captured rebels in May 2009 are faked.
05/01/2011
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Associated Press, The Canadian Press
Sri Lanka's president on Sunday castigated a U.N. report on alleged crimes during the country's civil war and insisted the government fought humanely, even feeding its enemies.