10/02/2011
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Lanka Business Online
Oct 02, 2011 (LBO) - Five police officers have been arrested in Sri Lanka after thousands of angry citizens surrounded a police station seeking justice, where a suspect had died in custody, a media report said.
09/28/2010
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BBC Sinhala
Government of Sri Lanka says that suspected Tamil Tiger detainees cannot be treated under the same law as everyone else.
08/05/2010
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Asian Human Rights Commission
For several decades now the Sri Lankan people have been exposed to extraordinary acts of separation, large scale forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture, illegal arrest and detention. This and large scale displacement of people from their homes by way of internal displacement or by leaving the country altogether and the disappearance of even elementary forms of protection available to people within the legal and social sphere are among the many issues that have caused massive forms of trauma in the population as a whole.