COLOMBO (AFP) - Human rights activists accused Sri Lanka’s government of imposing a “collective punishment” on its minority Tamil community after forcing hundreds of them out of the capital.
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June 8 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s government expelled more than 370 people from the capital, Colombo, saying the order is part of security controls after bomb attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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Hundreds of ethnic Tamils have been rounded up and forced from the capital, Colombo, by the government. Officials said the move was a needed security measure as its fight with Tamil rebels intensified but offered no evidence that the people expelled posed a threat. Human rights groups warned that the move against Tamil civilians could […]

June 8 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s government expelled more than 370 people from the capital, Colombo, saying the order is part of security controls after bomb attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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The Sri Lankan government came under severe criticism for human rights and humanitarian abuses at a public hearing in Brussels of the European Parliamentary Development Committee Wednesday. The Tamil Tigers were also criticized. Whilst representatives of the European Commission and Council of External Affairs slammed the lack of respect for international humanitarian laws in Sri […]

June 8 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka’s government expelled more than 370 people from the capital, Colombo, saying the order is part of security controls after bomb attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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By Arvind Nair THE actual situation in Sri Lanka is different from what is being portrayed in large sections of the media, the Sri Lankan ambassador has said.
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The remains of the two staffers of the Sri Lanka Red Cross abducted and killed, after having participated in a training programme in Colombo Sunday, were interred Thursday around 9:00 a.m at Kalliyangkaadu burial site on Boundary road in Batticalo, attended by a large crowd of people.
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COLOMBO — Japan’s special peace envoy, Yasushi Akashi, now in Sri Lanka in an effort to move the war-wracked country’s peace process forward, had a meeting with President Mahinda Rajapakse on Wednesday, a spokesman for the president’s office said Thursday.
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June 07, Colombo: Wrapping up the month of commemoration of war heroes today Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa emphasized that the government is not ready to betray the victories of the country’s war heroes through signing false agreements.
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