Nordic ceasefire monitors began wrapping up their 6-year mission to Sri Lanka on Friday after the government scrapped a truce with the Tamil Tigers, and their mandate, amid a chorus of international concern.
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T V Sriram Colombo, Jan 3 (PTI) Peace broker Norway today warned of escalation in ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka following the government’s decision to scrap the six-year-old ceasefire with the
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New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Sri Lanka will remain a unitary state according Buddhism a primary place but will go for greater devolution of powers to provinces in a bid to end the prolonged ethnic conflict, according to proposals that have been almost finalised.
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Human Rights Watch has called for a UN human rights monitoring mission in Sri Lanka in the wake of the breakdown of the 2002 ceasefire agreement between the government and the Tamil Tiger secessionists.
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COLOMBO (AP)–An international rights group implored the U.N. Friday to send observers to help protect civilians in Sri Lanka’s civil war when European truce monitors depart following the collapse of the country’s 2002 cease-fire.
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Colombo, Jan 4 (IANS) The US has stopped the supply of military equipment and services to Sri Lanka, as key countries rapped the Mahinda Rajapaksa government for unilaterally abrogating the 2002 Norway-brokered truce with the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Sri Lanka’s government notified peace-broker Norway that it is pulling out of a 2002 truce with Tamil rebels that has failed to quell the violence, and a European monitoring team announced the end of their mission.
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Colombo, Jan 4 (IANS) Convinced that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will come visiting next month, Sri Lanka is all set to bring out by the end of January a devolution package aimed at resolving the ethnic conflict.
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Sri Lanka’s government officially notified peace-broker Norway that it is pulling out of a 2002 truce with Tamil rebels that has failed to quell the violence, and a European monitoring team announced the end of their mission.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored on Thursday the urgent need for a political solution to end the bloodshed in Sri Lanka following the government’s decision to terminate the 2002 cease-fire agreement with the separatist Tamil T …
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