COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—A Sri Lankan government minister and seven others were wounded Wednesday in a roadside bomb explosion in a suburb north of the capital, the military said.
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Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court slapped restrictions on search and arrest by security forces today amid mounting international concern over the country’s human rights record.
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Expressing alarm at the comments at made by Sri Lanka’s Army (SLA) Commander Major General Sarath Fonseka labelling some journalists and sections of the media as “traitors,” the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is a press release issued Monday said, “the statement by Major General Fonseka and the allegations of death threats against journalists are […]

James Ross, Legal and Policy Director of New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a hard hitting column appearing in the Tuesday edition of the Daily Mirror, said the Sri Lanka government has failed to “seriously investigate and prosecute those responsible for the horrific abuses of the past two years – the unlawful killings, the […]

Intensifying violence in Sri Lanka’s embattled north pushed the death toll from four days of fighting to 85, the military said Tuesday, as the European Union warned of rising human rights violations after the government withdrew from a 2002 cease-fire.
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Intensifying violence in Sri Lanka’s embattled north pushed the death toll from four days of fighting to 85, the military said Tuesday, as the European Union warned of rising human rights violations after the government withdrew from a 2002 cease-fire.
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Characterizing the conflict in Sri Lanka as a “vicious civil war,” Senator Barack Obama, a leading Democratic contender in America’s forth coming 2009 Presidential Elections, said during an interview that, “the problem of the 21st century is the problem of the other.” He described this phenomenon as the inability of people to accommodate others “who […]

Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lanka is eradicating terrorism in the northern region after driving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from the east, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.
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The main opposition UNP has charged that the government`s decision to abrogate the Ceasefire Agreeme..
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Colombo - Sri Lanka Blasted the Nordic countries for their regrets on the withdrawal of the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) and their comments on the CFA, 10 000 lives may have been spared due to the CFA.
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