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November 21, 2008

November 1, 2008
Rights groups slam media controls in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has the lowest press freedom rating of any democracy and has been the first to use anti-terror laws to prosecute journalists, international rights groups said Friday. Five organisations, including the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF), said journalists and media institutions seeking to report independently on the island's Tamil separatist conflict were being "attacked and intimidated."..

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October 28, 2008
Sri Lanka's 'disappeared' population

Malini Thambipillai's four-year-old daughter keeps asking her the same tough question: Why do all the other kids have a father but not me? The answer is too hard to explain to a pre-schooler: her father is among the "disappeared" -- the hundreds, possibly thousands, allegedly abducted in war-torn Sri Lanka...

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October 8, 2008
India criticises Sri Lanka's Tamil offensive

India criticised Sri Lanka in a rare intervention into the island's internal affairs, saying civilian deaths during a military offensive against Tamil rebels were a cause of grave concern...

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September 22, 2008
Nanuet man seeks to highlight plight of Sri Lankan minority

A Rockland anesthesiologist is renewing his efforts to get the international community to respond to unrest in his native Sri Lanka which he fears could escalate into genocide of the ethnic minority. ..