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Sri Lanka Supreme Court Stops Land Grab From War-Affected Tamils
Sri Lanka's top court halted a government move to acquire land in northern regions still reeling from the consequences 16 years after the end of a decades-long civil war.
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'We Just Followed Orders': Disabled Army Veterans Fight For Rights
Colonel Anil Kaul, 66, has written several letters to the army headquarters, but says he is still to receive a satisfactory response. He is a war veteran, who lost his right eye and left hand while saving 250 soldiers in a rescue mission in Sri Lanka's Jaffna in 1987. He got a Vir Chakra for his bravery, but says that the institutional support need...
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Sri Lanka President Pledges Land For 100,000 War Victims
Up to 100,000 people still living in camps six years after the end of Sri Lanka's brutal ethnic war will be given land to build homes within six months, President Maithripala Sirisena told AFP on Sunday.
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Former Tamil Politician Claims Second Torture Camp Found in Sri Lanka
An illegal detention centre similar to the one discovered by UN experts in eastern Sri Lanka has been found in the country's northern Jaffna district, a former Tamil lawmaker has said, alleging that civil war detainees including Tamils were tortured in the camps.
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Sri Lanka's Icon of Colonial Rule Rises From The Rubble
As an army of labourers churns out limestone bricks, archeologist Prashantha Mandawala reflects on the ambitious task of restoring Sri Lanka's centuries-old Jaffna fort, destroyed by ethnic war.
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Sri Lanka Soldiers Jailed for 25 Years for Gang-Rape in 2010
A Sri Lankan court today sentenced four government soldiers to 25 years in prison each for the gang rape of a 27-year-old Tamil mother of two in the island's former war zone in 2010.
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Sri Lanka's War Widows Pin Hopes on New President
Shunned, destitute and pushed into prostitution in some cases, Sri Lanka's Tamil widows have returned to northern Jaffna since the end of the separatist war only to discover they are not welcome even in their homeland.
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PM Modi Visits Jaffna, Seeks Respect for All Citizens in Sri Lanka
Making a historic visit to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in the island nation, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between the LTTE and forces.
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PM Narendra Modi Visits Jaffna in Sri Lanka
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived this afternoon in Jaffna, the first Indian PM to set foot in this war ravaged town in Sri Lanka's Tamil-dominated Northern Province, a day after he urged the country's new leaders to give greater autonomy to its Tamil minority.
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Sri Lanka Re-Opens Rail Link to Former War Zone After 24 Years
More than two decades after its destruction in Sri Lanka's civil war, the rail link between the capital Colombo and the northern city of Jaffna re-opened on Monday amid hopes that it will give a boost to reconciliation efforts.
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'Queen of Jaffna' to Link Sri Lanka's North Again (Do not Publish)
The "Queen of Jaffna," a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil's northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a bloody civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs back into service next week, reinforcing the government's authority in a region once controlled by Tamil rebels.
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Sri Lanka Celebrates End of War, Blocks Commemorations
President Mahinda Rajapakse led celebrations at a major victory parade on Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist war after commemorations for its victims were blocked.
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Sri Lanka begins war tally after international pressure
Sri Lanka was to begin compiling a death toll from its ethnic conflict on Thursday as it seeks to fend off growing pressure over allegations of mass killings at the end of the war.
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David Cameron faces protests in former Sri Lanka war zone
Crowds of protesters met British Prime Minister David Cameron in the north of Sri Lanka on Friday, some surging towards his vehicle brandishing photos of relatives lost in the country's long civil war that ended four years ago.
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British Foreign Secretary in Colombo for Commonwealth meet
British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in Colombo today ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) starting on Friday.
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Sri Lanka Supreme Court Stops Land Grab From War-Affected Tamils
Sri Lanka's top court halted a government move to acquire land in northern regions still reeling from the consequences 16 years after the end of a decades-long civil war.
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'We Just Followed Orders': Disabled Army Veterans Fight For Rights
Colonel Anil Kaul, 66, has written several letters to the army headquarters, but says he is still to receive a satisfactory response. He is a war veteran, who lost his right eye and left hand while saving 250 soldiers in a rescue mission in Sri Lanka's Jaffna in 1987. He got a Vir Chakra for his bravery, but says that the institutional support need...
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Sri Lanka President Pledges Land For 100,000 War Victims
Up to 100,000 people still living in camps six years after the end of Sri Lanka's brutal ethnic war will be given land to build homes within six months, President Maithripala Sirisena told AFP on Sunday.
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Former Tamil Politician Claims Second Torture Camp Found in Sri Lanka
An illegal detention centre similar to the one discovered by UN experts in eastern Sri Lanka has been found in the country's northern Jaffna district, a former Tamil lawmaker has said, alleging that civil war detainees including Tamils were tortured in the camps.
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Sri Lanka's Icon of Colonial Rule Rises From The Rubble
As an army of labourers churns out limestone bricks, archeologist Prashantha Mandawala reflects on the ambitious task of restoring Sri Lanka's centuries-old Jaffna fort, destroyed by ethnic war.
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Sri Lanka Soldiers Jailed for 25 Years for Gang-Rape in 2010
A Sri Lankan court today sentenced four government soldiers to 25 years in prison each for the gang rape of a 27-year-old Tamil mother of two in the island's former war zone in 2010.
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Sri Lanka's War Widows Pin Hopes on New President
Shunned, destitute and pushed into prostitution in some cases, Sri Lanka's Tamil widows have returned to northern Jaffna since the end of the separatist war only to discover they are not welcome even in their homeland.
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PM Modi Visits Jaffna, Seeks Respect for All Citizens in Sri Lanka
Making a historic visit to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in the island nation, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between the LTTE and forces.
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PM Narendra Modi Visits Jaffna in Sri Lanka
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived this afternoon in Jaffna, the first Indian PM to set foot in this war ravaged town in Sri Lanka's Tamil-dominated Northern Province, a day after he urged the country's new leaders to give greater autonomy to its Tamil minority.
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Sri Lanka Re-Opens Rail Link to Former War Zone After 24 Years
More than two decades after its destruction in Sri Lanka's civil war, the rail link between the capital Colombo and the northern city of Jaffna re-opened on Monday amid hopes that it will give a boost to reconciliation efforts.
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'Queen of Jaffna' to Link Sri Lanka's North Again (Do not Publish)
The "Queen of Jaffna," a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil's northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a bloody civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs back into service next week, reinforcing the government's authority in a region once controlled by Tamil rebels.
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Sri Lanka Celebrates End of War, Blocks Commemorations
President Mahinda Rajapakse led celebrations at a major victory parade on Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist war after commemorations for its victims were blocked.
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Sri Lanka begins war tally after international pressure
Sri Lanka was to begin compiling a death toll from its ethnic conflict on Thursday as it seeks to fend off growing pressure over allegations of mass killings at the end of the war.
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David Cameron faces protests in former Sri Lanka war zone
Crowds of protesters met British Prime Minister David Cameron in the north of Sri Lanka on Friday, some surging towards his vehicle brandishing photos of relatives lost in the country's long civil war that ended four years ago.
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British Foreign Secretary in Colombo for Commonwealth meet
British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in Colombo today ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) starting on Friday.
