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Sri Lanka’s agreement to probe war crimes allegations related to its defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels is a smokescreen to avoid an international inquiry, a human rights group said Wednesday.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Sri Lanka...
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Sri Lanka “categorically denied” that its troops were involved in war crimes against Tamils after a video surfaced allegedly showing a government soldier...
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Sri Lankan authorities said on Friday said they were interrogating the new head of the Tamil Tigers, their most-wanted target since crushing the separatist rebels and...
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There lies an eerie silence,
on the grassy fields pock marked
with craters scattered amongst the broken trees
and trampled flowers where,
twenty thousand died because...
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They begin each day saluting the national flag of the country they had vowed to defeat or die trying.
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