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Sri Lankan Tamils Carry Scars Of Civil War, Search For Missing Relatives
Arumuga Lakshmi, tormented by questions about the fate of her two children, missing for years, marched through a town in northern Sri Lanka with a group of women, many holding up photographs, black flags, and burning torches.
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"Never Supported Killing Of Innocents": Muthiah Muralidaran On Biopic Uproar
Former Sri Lanka cricketer Muthiah Muralidaran -- who is at the centre of a massive controversy involving his upcoming biopic "800" -- has rubbished allegations that he celebrated the deaths of innocent Tamil people and made a controversial remark about it in 2009, when the decades-long civil war in the island nation ended.
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Sri Lankan Bomb Attacks On Hotels, Churches: 20 Minutes Of Carnage
Bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing 290 and injuring 500 people, in the first major attack on the Indian Ocean island since the end of a civil war 10 years ago.
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Sri Lanka Police Find 87 Bomb Detonators At Colombo's Main Bus Station: Updates
Bomb Blast in Sri Lanka Updates: A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 290 people, including dozens of foreigners. The apparently coordinated attacks were the deadliest to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that kil...
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207 Dead In Serial Blasts In Sri Lanka's Worst Violence Since Civil War
A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 207 people, including dozens of foreigners. Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe condemned the attacks - the worst act of violence since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war a decade ago - as "cowardly...
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Sri Lanka Court Orders Military Chief's Arrest For Role In Civil War
A Sri Lankan court on Friday ordered the arrest the country's top military officer over the abduction and murder of 11 people during the Tamil civil war.
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China Extends Influence, Aims To Build Houses And Roads In Sri Lanka
China wants to build houses and roads in Sri Lanka's north, much of which is in a state of disrepair nearly a decade after the end of civil war, Chinese and Sri Lankan officials said, in a bid to expand it influence beyond the island's south.
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India, Sri Lanka Files Among 195 Documents Destroyed In Britain
Around 195 files including documents relating to relations between India and Sri Lanka at the peak of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) led civil war have been destroyed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), sparking concern among archivists and researchers.
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Sri Lanka's War Survivors Hope New Law Will Unlock State Land Holdings
Almost eight years after the war ended, hundreds of smallholders are pinning their hopes on the newly-minted Right to Information (RTI) Act to unearth details of who owns the land on which they live and work.
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Sri Lanka Divided As Panel Backs Foreign Judges To Probe War Crimes
Sri Lanka should bring in international prosecutors and judges to help investigate alleged atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009, a task force said on Thursday in recommendations that were welcomed by the United Nations.
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UN Rights Chief Meets Families Of Sri Lanka's War Victims
The United Nations human rights chief on Sunday travelled to the north and east of Sri Lanka to assess the country's progress in prosecuting alleged war crimes.
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United Nations Wants International Judges In Sri Lanka War Crimes Court
A long-awaited UN report on Wednesday detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka's civil war and said the country needed international help to probe the crimes to enable reconciliation.
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Sri Lanka Violates Human Rights of Minorities: Report
Sri Lanka continues to violate human rights of its religious and ethnic minorities, six years after the end of civil war in the country that resulted in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to a new independent report.
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Cannes 2015: Tamil-French Refugee Drama Dheepan Wins Palme d'Or
Dheepan is about the story of a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family in order to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lankan Minister Urges UN Chief Ban Ki-moon to Delay War Crimes Report
Sri Lanka's foreign minister met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, and UN diplomatic sources said he pressed his government's desire to delay the release of a UN report on alleged war crimes during his country's civil war.
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Sri Lankan Tamils Carry Scars Of Civil War, Search For Missing Relatives
Arumuga Lakshmi, tormented by questions about the fate of her two children, missing for years, marched through a town in northern Sri Lanka with a group of women, many holding up photographs, black flags, and burning torches.
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"Never Supported Killing Of Innocents": Muthiah Muralidaran On Biopic Uproar
Former Sri Lanka cricketer Muthiah Muralidaran -- who is at the centre of a massive controversy involving his upcoming biopic "800" -- has rubbished allegations that he celebrated the deaths of innocent Tamil people and made a controversial remark about it in 2009, when the decades-long civil war in the island nation ended.
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Sri Lankan Bomb Attacks On Hotels, Churches: 20 Minutes Of Carnage
Bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing 290 and injuring 500 people, in the first major attack on the Indian Ocean island since the end of a civil war 10 years ago.
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Sri Lanka Police Find 87 Bomb Detonators At Colombo's Main Bus Station: Updates
Bomb Blast in Sri Lanka Updates: A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 290 people, including dozens of foreigners. The apparently coordinated attacks were the deadliest to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that kil...
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207 Dead In Serial Blasts In Sri Lanka's Worst Violence Since Civil War
A series of eight devastating bomb blasts ripped through high-end hotels and churches holding Easter services in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing 207 people, including dozens of foreigners. Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe condemned the attacks - the worst act of violence since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war a decade ago - as "cowardly...
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Sri Lanka Court Orders Military Chief's Arrest For Role In Civil War
A Sri Lankan court on Friday ordered the arrest the country's top military officer over the abduction and murder of 11 people during the Tamil civil war.
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China Extends Influence, Aims To Build Houses And Roads In Sri Lanka
China wants to build houses and roads in Sri Lanka's north, much of which is in a state of disrepair nearly a decade after the end of civil war, Chinese and Sri Lankan officials said, in a bid to expand it influence beyond the island's south.
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India, Sri Lanka Files Among 195 Documents Destroyed In Britain
Around 195 files including documents relating to relations between India and Sri Lanka at the peak of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) led civil war have been destroyed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), sparking concern among archivists and researchers.
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Sri Lanka's War Survivors Hope New Law Will Unlock State Land Holdings
Almost eight years after the war ended, hundreds of smallholders are pinning their hopes on the newly-minted Right to Information (RTI) Act to unearth details of who owns the land on which they live and work.
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Sri Lanka Divided As Panel Backs Foreign Judges To Probe War Crimes
Sri Lanka should bring in international prosecutors and judges to help investigate alleged atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009, a task force said on Thursday in recommendations that were welcomed by the United Nations.
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UN Rights Chief Meets Families Of Sri Lanka's War Victims
The United Nations human rights chief on Sunday travelled to the north and east of Sri Lanka to assess the country's progress in prosecuting alleged war crimes.
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United Nations Wants International Judges In Sri Lanka War Crimes Court
A long-awaited UN report on Wednesday detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka's civil war and said the country needed international help to probe the crimes to enable reconciliation.
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Sri Lanka Violates Human Rights of Minorities: Report
Sri Lanka continues to violate human rights of its religious and ethnic minorities, six years after the end of civil war in the country that resulted in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to a new independent report.
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Cannes 2015: Tamil-French Refugee Drama Dheepan Wins Palme d'Or
Dheepan is about the story of a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family in order to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lankan Minister Urges UN Chief Ban Ki-moon to Delay War Crimes Report
Sri Lanka's foreign minister met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, and UN diplomatic sources said he pressed his government's desire to delay the release of a UN report on alleged war crimes during his country's civil war.
