11/20/2011
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BBC
EDITOR'S PICK: In 2009, a young boy flees Sri Lanka's civil war carrying a violin. In 2011, BBC reporter Priyath Liyanage tries to find him. Follow links for the full radio clip.
08/28/2011
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The Sunday Leader
A US embassy cable released by the Wikileaks website last week quotes a former US official in Colombo as saying that a group of doctors who were in the Wanni during the war, had been “coached” on what to say at a press briefing in Colombo after they were arrested.
11/21/2010
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Sunday Times
Two doctors who served in the Wanni area up to the end of the war, told the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) of the personal anguish and trying moments they faced during those difficult days, while Maj. Gen. Shavindra Silva, Commander 58 Division during the military operations, in his second appearance before the LLRC, gave details of atrocities committed by the LTTE against civilians in the war zone.
07/16/2010
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AFP
COLOMBO — India and China have clinched two separate contracts to build railway lines and communication links in Sri Lanka, the government said Friday.