07/10/2011
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AFP, Agence France-Presse
A British minister visiting Sri Lanka has repeated demands that the government must investigate war crimes alleged to have been committed during the island's separatist conflict with Tamil rebels.
07/09/2011
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AFP
Sri Lanka has arrested a Briton for allegedly helping a British TV channel produce a documentary accusing Sri Lankan troops of war crimes, a media report said on Saturday.
02/22/2011
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Foreign Office, U.K.
Alistair Burt Foreign Office Minister, London
An active dialogue with Sri Lanka
I’ve just spent a very interesting couple of days in Sri Lanka, mainly to solidify the UK’s active dialogue with Sri Lanka and to see what progress has been made since the end of the civil war. The UK is a big contributor to multilateral aid, resettlement and reconciliation efforts and I had a chance to see the difference some of this work is making in Jaffna. I also managed to speak to some of the people the British Council is working with in Colombo; you can see the video below.
08/06/2010
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BBC
A security assessment carried out by the British High Commission in Sri Lanka has concluded that the whole country is now safe for travellers.
07/30/2010
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AllVoices
The United Kingdom yesterday removed its travel restriction to several northern war-affected districts in Sri Lanka.
05/03/2010
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BBC Sinhala
More than 200,000 of the Sri Lankan diaspora appears to be united in their allegiances in the upcoming UK parliamentary elections.