03/12/2011
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Daily Mirror
Several Muslim families who launched a fast-unto-death last Thursday (10) had decided to abandon their action after receiving assurances by authorities yesterday (11).
03/10/2011
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Daily Mirror
The Muslim residents who were resettled in Pommaveli, Jaffna have been on a fast on death from yesterday against the shortage of basic amenities which were to be provided by the government.
07/18/2010
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Sunday Leader
An opinion piece by Tisaranee Gunasekara: The prime target of Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s delusive fast was neither the UN nor its Secretary General, but the Lankan public. Minister Weerawansa and his political handlers would have known that their attempt at blackmailing the UN Secretary General was bound to fail. And, as even the Sinhala nationalist defenders of Weerawansa’s actions admit, the fast was not really meant to end in, death. So why fast, if one knew that the UN was not going to knuckle down? And why call it a fast-unto-death, if there was no real intention of, fasting unto death? Minister Weerawansa’s was a pseudo fast (unto death) and its real aim was to delude the Lankan people into forgetting, at least momentarily, their many substantive discontents and rally round the Rajapaksas in outrageous ire against the ‘evil machinations’ of the latest ‘arch-villain’, Ban Ki Moon.
07/15/2010
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The Economist
NEITHER Sri Lanka’s government, nor the United Nations seems ready to back down over an increasingly bitter dispute. This week a spokesman for Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, confirmed that a panel of three experts will be convened as planned to advise him on “accountability” for war crimes that were allegedly committed as Sri Lanka brought its civil war to a bloody end early in 2009.
07/10/2010
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CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Politician ends 'fast unto death'
* Ambulance rushes him to hospital
* Protesters dislike U.N. panel looking into abuses during war
Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- A Sri Lanka politician ended his "fast unto death" on Saturday when the nation's president gave him water and an ambulance rushed him to a hospital.