As Sri Lanka Descends to UN Basement, Underground Envoy Talk

(Inner City Press, Fri, May 1, 2009 ) - In the run up to the Security Council’s third “informal interactive dialogue” on Sri Lanka, slated for 5 p.m. Thursday in [...]

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Tamil student calls off Parliament Square hunger strike

(The Guardian, Fri, May 1, 2009 ) - A Tamil who has been on a three-week hunger strike in Parliament Square called off his protest today after the foreign secretary [...]

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Sri Lanka’s Dirty War

(New York Times, Fri, May 1, 2009 ) - Army troops in Sri Lanka are closing in on a dwindling band of Tamil Tiger separatists who are outgunned on an [...]

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Events unfold typical of Nazi concentration camps

(TamilNet, Thursday, 30 April 2009) - Food parcels were thrown to people after making them run like dogs, and two children were killed in the melee in the barbed-wire camp [...]

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Miliband in stand-up row with Sri Lanka defence minister over civilian deaths

(Times Online, Fri, May 1, 2009 ) - Sri Lanka has published details of an apparently heated exchange between its Defence Secretary and David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, about [...]

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‘War crimes shadow’ over Sri Lanka: Britain

(IANS, Fri, May 1, 2009 ) - The international community has rejected calls for suspending Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth although the current conflict in that country is taking place [...]

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Dispatch of Mr. Yasushi Akashi, Representative of the Government of Japan to Sri Lanka

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, April 30, 2009) - Dispatch of Mr. Yasushi Akashi, Representative of the Government of Japan to Sri Lanka
April 30, 2009
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Can there be peace in Sri Lanka?

(by Olivia Ward, The Toronto Star, Apr 30, 2009) - Sri Lanka’s endgame with the Tamil Tiger rebels is rolling to a close, and the government seems increasingly confident [...]

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Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers vow never to surrender

(Guardian, 30 04 2009) - The Tamil Tigers vowed today they would never surrender to the advancing Sri Lankan forces, as the military released video footage of attacks on the [...]

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US acts to delay IMF loan to Sri Lanka - officials

(Reuters, Thu, Apr 30, 2009 ) - The United States has decided to delay a $1.9 billion International Monetary Fund loan to Sri Lanka to try to pressure Colombo to [...]

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