08/11/2011
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BBC
Weeping parents demonstrate in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, demanding to know the fate of close relatives who have disappeared.
08/04/2011
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Channel 6 News Online
COLOMBO (BNO NEWS) -- Residents in northwestern Sri Lanka held a mass protest on Wednesday over the murder of a prominent human rights activist whose body was found 17 months after he disappeared, the Colombo Page reported on Thursday.
08/01/2011
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RTT News
The Sri Lankan government has said that over 2,500 people went missing during the war against Tamil rebels (LTTE) in the north of the country. An analytical report on the final three years of the war, published by Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday, says 2,564 people, including 676 children, were listed as missing.
07/29/2011
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BBC
UN calls for speedy investigation over the mysterious death of a prominent rights activist.
04/10/2011
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Sunday Observer
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said that the government was not perturbed over any allegations by human rights groups that accuse Sri Lanka of alleged human rights violations during the final stages of the battle against LTTE terrorists as Government troops had engaged in a battle in keeping with all humanitarian norms.
04/08/2011
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The Canadian Press
Sri Lanka's government must account for ethnic minority rebels and others who were detained at the end of the country's civil war almost two years ago because some appear to have disappeared, a rights group said Friday.
04/08/2011
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BBC
Sri Lanka's government should account for all those detained at the end of the war with Tamil Tiger rebels nearly two years ago, Human Rights Watch says.