03/13/2011
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BBC
An international human rights watchdog has called on over 50 invited countries to boycott a conference aimed at sharing Sri Lanka's war experience.
09/12/2010
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TamilNet
Sri Lanka Minister of Disaster Management A. H. M. Fowzie will hold a meeting in Jaffna Sunday with government departmental heads and representatives of public organization to discuss arrangements of the Sri Lanka National Defence Day that is to be celebrated in Jaffna 26 December, Jaffna Secretariat sources said. This is another event like Sri Lanka Cabinet meeting held in Ki’linochchi and the Government Agents conference staged in Jaffna by the Sri Lanka government to show the world as if it is genuinely interested in the 'development' of the North, civil society organizations in Jaffna said.
06/08/2010
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AFP
COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka's government on Tuesday proposed maintaining defence spending at nearly the same level as in the final year of its massive military offensive against the Tamil Tiger separatists.