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Sri Lanka state of emergency to end September 14

By pearlaction | August 25, 2011 |

[CNN] A six-year state of emergency in Sri Lanka is scheduled to end September 14, a government spokesman told CNN Thursday night. [Full Story]

Toronto Tamil fears for wife in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | July 8, 2011 |

[CBC] A Toronto man of Tamil descent is asking the federal government to rescue his wife and children in Sri Lanka, claiming they are being harassed by the government there because of things he told a Canadian newspaper. [Full Story]

Canadian detainee wants probe into detention and alleged torture in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | July 1, 2011 |

[National Post] A Canadian man has returned to Toronto after spending three years in the custody of Sri Lanka’s anti-terrorism police, whom he said detained him until he signed a false confession saying he had smuggled equipment to the Tamil Tigers rebels. [Full Story]

Civilian ‘slaughter’ in Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | February 20, 2009 |

[BBC] The campaign group, Human Rights Watch, has accused the Sri Lankan army of “slaughter” and rebels of “brutality” towards civilians in the north-east. It called on the government to end its “indiscriminate artillery attacks” on civilians and its policy of “detaining displaced persons in internment camps”. Human Rights Watch also condemned the Tamil Tigers…