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Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa defends military’s role

By pearlaction | May 27, 2011 |

[BBC] Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has defended the conduct of the military during fighting at the end of the country’s protracted civil war. He was speaking at a huge military festival in Colombo to mark the two-year anniversary of the government’s defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels. A UN panel of experts recently accused…

Behind the muzzled: voices from a troubed Sri Lanka

By pearlaction | December 3, 2008 |

[ Telegraph ] I want to return to Sri Lanka today where, while the world focuses on the fallout from Mumbai, SL government forces are reportedly closing in on the key rebel strongholds of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu. It now seems that, in the name of ‘national interest’ and ‘war spirit’ Sri Lanka’s government has effectively…