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  • Sri Lanka vows to free 130,000 refugees 22 Nov 2009 00:32 GMT
    ... of people after the end of the fighting have become a diplomatic embarrassment to the ... when Sarath Fonseka, the head of the army and the man who plotted the defeat ... an active part in the Tamil Tiger military campaign or had offered support to the ...

  • Sri Lanka to free 130,000 refugees 22 Nov 2009 00:34 GMT
    ... of people after the end of the fighting have become a diplomatic embarrassment to the ... when Sarath Fonseka, the head of the army and the man who plotted the defeat ... an active part in the Tamil Tiger military campaign or had offered support to the ...

  • Sri Lanka vows to free 130,000 Tamil refugees 22 Nov 2009 00:35 GMT
    ... of people after the end of the fighting have become a diplomatic embarrassment to the ... when Sarath Fonseka, the head of the army and the man who plotted the defeat ... an active part in the Tamil Tiger military campaign or had offered support to the ...

  • Life as a Sri Lankan war refugee 21 Nov 2009 09:00 GMT
    ... stopped people from leaving and that the army shelled civilian areas. The dignified young woman ... emotion, betraying her trauma. "Because of the fighting and shelling we moved into the no-fire ... they got into the hands of the military. Hearing all this we were scared to ...

  • Sri Lanka detainees 'to be freed' 21 Nov 2009 10:32 GMT
    ... The barbed-wire enclosures are run by the military, and many of those displaced had complained ... of releases. In May the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting since the mid-1970s to carve out a ...

  • Sri Lanka camps 'to be opened up' 21 Nov 2009 14:32 GMT
    ... The barbed-wire enclosures are run by the military, and many of those displaced had complained ... of releases. In May the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting since the mid-1970s to carve out a ...

  • Sri Lanka camps 'to be opened' 21 Nov 2009 14:56 GMT
    ... The barbed-wire enclosures are run by the military, and many of those displaced had complained ... correspondent adds. In May the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting since the mid-1970s to carve out a ...

  • Sri Lanka to open refugee camps ahead of polls 21 Nov 2009 18:11 GMT
    ... freedom of movement to refugees held in military-guarded camps from next month, after facing pressure ... backing a possible challenge by the victorious army chief against President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who they ... calls for a ceasefire during the intense fighting. According to Ministry of Disaster Management data, ...

  • Sri Lanka's ex-military says will 'restore' human rights 21 Nov 2009 20:16 GMT
    ... Sri Lanka's ex-military says will 'restore' human rights November 20, ... thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting. The government, however, denied any civilians were ... credited Fonseka for successfully leading the 200,000-strong army to crush the separatist Tamil Tigers, also ...

  • Sri Lanka to free war-displaced civilians held in camps 21 Nov 2009 09:25 GMT
    ... before their defeat by the Sri Lankan army is seen in northeastern Sri Lanka on ... Lanka said Saturday it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of ... from 280,000 at the end of the fighting in May with the defeat of Tamil ...

  • Sri Lanka 'to free all war-displaced civilians' 21 Nov 2009 16:12 GMT
    ... groups have been pressing Colombo to allow war displaced civilians the freedom to choose where ... from 280,000 at the end of the fighting in May with the defeat of the ... December, said Rajapakse. The country's former top military general, Sarath Fonseka, who defeated the Tamil ...

  • Freedom for Sri Lanka's war-displaced soon 21 Nov 2009 23:13 GMT
    ... War-displaced civilians look on at a state-run internment ... from 280,000 at the end of the fighting in May with the defeat of the ... December, said Rajapakse. The country’s former top military general, Sarath Fonseka, who defeated the Tamil ...

  • Sri Lanka Plans to Let Tamil Refugees Leave Camps 21 Nov 2009 20:31 GMT
    ... were forced into the camps after fleeing fighting in the final months of the government's 25-year war with the separatist The Tamil civilians are ... the president's brother, said Saturday that the military was given the green light to release ...

  • Sri Lanka to free all war-displaced civilians 21 Nov 2009 14:13 GMT
    ... to the remaining war-displaced civilians held in , meeting a key ... from 280,000 at the end of the fighting in May with the defeat of the ... out rebel fighters hidden among the civilians. Military officials said about 10,000 ex-combatants had surrendered ...

  • Sri Lanka to release 130,000 Tamils still held in camps 21 Nov 2009 14:55 GMT
    ... it will lift restrictions on thousands of war-displaced ethnic Tamils still residing in squalid internment ... More than 300,000 people displaced by the fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels ... won the election by a slender margin. military defeated the rebels earlier this year, ending ...


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