07/29/2010
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BBC
A Tamil refugee hunger striker has accepted £77,500 in damages over newspaper reports he secretly ate burgers during his protest.
07/29/2010
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The Sun (UK)
OUR article of 9 October 2009 falsely alleged that throughout a 23 day hunger strike, Mr Parameswaran Subramanyam secretly ate takeaway burgers when dishonestly claiming he was on hunger strike in support of Sri Lankan Tamils, in a campaign which was policed at considerable expense and caused the police to waste public money.
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.
07/10/2010
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Press Trust of India, Zee News
Washington: The US on Saturday said it was "deeply dismayed" at the treatment meted out to a top UN official in Sri Lanka and asked the Rajapaksa government to take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of UN personnel and premises there.
07/09/2010
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Al-Jazeera
The Sri Lankan cabinet minister who has led several days of rallies against the United Nations has quit his post and started a hunger strike to protest a UN panel investigating alleged war crimes in the island-nation.
07/09/2010
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Reuters
* U.S., Europe warn Sri Lanka over protest
* UN's Ban blasts Sri Lanka, recalls envoy
* Minister enters second day of hunger strike
* Minister's resignation rejected by president
* (Recasts, adds diplomatic statement)
07/09/2010
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Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - The European Union and nine countries Friday warned Sri Lanka that a protest against a U.N. war crimes panel that blocked the world body's office could harm its international reputation.
07/09/2010
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Time magazine
An already testy relationship between the United Nations and the Sri Lankan government came under greater strain this week after a firebrand government minister's hunger strike at the gates of the main U.N. office here prompted the U.N.'s resident representative to be recalled.
07/08/2010
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Sunday Leader
Housing Minister Wimal Weerawansa has begun a hunger strike outside the Colombo UN office demanding the end of a UN Panel on Sri Lanka’s war. Framing his stance as a defense of the soldiers who fought the war, Weerawansa has said that he was ready sacrifice his life.
07/08/2010
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Voice of America
A Sri Lankan cabinet minister says he is staging a hunger strike outside the United Nations office in Colombo, to protest the world's body investigation of alleged war crimes during the country's civil war.