News: Holmes

12/14/2009 | CNN
(CNN) -- A top Sri Lankan diplomat Monday strongly rejected charges his government is abusing human rights of members of the country's minority Tamil community in refugee camps after the country's quarter-century-long civil war.
11/21/2009 | CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS * More than 300,000 displaced by fighting were placed in internment camp * Remaining 130,000 will be free to leave on December 1, official says * United Nations says ethnic minority Tamils held by force in inhumane conditions * Tamil vote likely to play important role in upcoming election
11/19/2009 | BBC
UN humanitarian chief John Holmes has confirmed that more than half the Tamils who were in refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka have now left them.
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