11/13/2010
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Adaderana
President Mahinda Rajapakse has instructed that visas be approved to the Al-Jazeera television staff members of who had wanted cover the swearing-in of President Mahinda Rajapaksa for a second term on November 19.
11/12/2010
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Sift
Colombo, Nov 12 (DPA) Sri Lanka has denied visas to at least three staffers of Al-Jazeera television, after the station broadcast images of bodies and execution-style killings, said to have occurred during the final weeks of the civil war against Tamil rebels last year.
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.
abuse, Al Jazeera, civilians, footage, Military, SLA, Tamils, video, war crimes
10/23/2009
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Al-Jazeera
More than 4,000 ethnic Tamils have been released from government-run detention camps in northern Sri Lanka, and allowed to return home.