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SRI LANKA
Peacetime Can Mean Hard Times
By Amantha Perera
MANKULAM, Sri Lanka - It’s a new year, a new beginning but probably a harsher reality in Sri Lanka's former war zone. As the country enters its third year since the end of a bloody sectarian war that tore the nation's fabric apart, for many of the survivors of the worst fighting, a tough but true reality is dawning. Life in peacetime may yet be a hard struggle.
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SRI LANKA
Female Unemployment Rises With Education
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - Every weekend it has been the same ritual for so many months. Buying the newspaper, going through the classified and the employment sections inch by column inch, marking job offers that could offer a chance, even remotely.
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SRI LANKA
Tsunami Demons Haunt the Coast
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - Seven years after monster waves crashed into homes, hotels and vehicles on Sri Lanka’s coast, people in this island nation continue to be haunted by demons from the sea.
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SRI LANKA
Peace Brings Little for the War-Disabled
By Amantha Perera
VAVUNIYA - There are times when Thiyagarajah Santhirakumaran, 35, wishes that he had died in Sri Lanka’s civil war. There is peace now, but with both his legs blown off by a shell he has little to look forward to except a life of dependency.
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SRI LANKA
Road Signs Indicate Better Times
By Amantha Perera
NEDUNKERNI, Sri Lanka - The rough road is almost indistinguishable from the mud huts and dilapidated surroundings of this village - still pockmarked by the artillery duels of Sri Lanka’s fierce civil war that ended more than two years ago.
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SRI LANKA
Solar Lights Dispel Post-War Gloom
By Amantha Perera
MANKULAM - The one thing that a quarter century of civil war has taught the local population in the north of the island is how to make the best use of local resources - starting with plain sunshine.
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SRI LANKA
Struggling Beside the Shining New Road
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - The sun’s rays bouncing off the A9 highway give it a shining glow. Once known as Sri Lanka’s ‘highway of death’, the road has come a long way from those macabre associations.
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Watchdogs Push Hard for War Crimes Probe in Sri Lanka
By Pam Johnson
WASHINGTON - Despite months of frustrated efforts to secure a full and impartial investigation into possible laws-of-war violations during the last phase of Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in 2009, leading human rights advocates in the U.S. launched a fresh charge on the island nation's government this week, vowing that, "If the Sri Lankan government won't provide justice for victims, the international community will."
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SRI LANKA
Less Guns Mean More Food
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - As paddy cultivation revives in Sri Lanka’s former war zones, prospects for the island’s food security have improved dramatically.
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Sri Lanka Ducks International Probe
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - Although the Sri Lankan government has evaded calls for an international probe into alleged excesses while militarily defeating Tamil separatism in 2009, it may yet be called to account at the September session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
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RIGHTS-SRI LANKA
Recovery of Disappeared's Body Raises Hopes
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - The details would have done credit to the plot of a spy thriller, except they are chillingly real.
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In Sri Lanka Democracy Rides on Wheels
By Amantha Perera
THUNUKKAI, Sri Lanka - If voters in this remote village, deep inside Sri Lanka’s former war zone, turned out in strength for the historical Jul. 23 local body elections, it had to do with the availability of buses to ferry them to the nearest polling station 20 km away.
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SRI LANKA
Film Reveals Atrocities in Final Months of Civil War
By Naseema Noor
WASHINGTON - A new documentary showing graphic footage from the end of Sri Lanka's war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009 is rejuvenating calls for an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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News in RSS While Sri Lanka celebrates 61 years of independence from British colonial rule, the enthusiasm is not shared by minority Tamils living under the military jackboot in the north of the country. Find out more about the situation with IPS.

Sri Lanka - In Search of Serendip
Asia - Pacific
Human Rights
IPS Special Coverage of Previous Attempts at Peace, Negotiations 2003-2005
United Nations -- Inside the Glass House
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IT IS TIME TO RETURN TO THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Irene Khan
Terrorists go on a rampage of senseless killing in Mumbai. Exhausted and terrified refugees pour into Uganda to escape the fighting in eastern Congo. Ten people are executed in Iran. Three hundred thousand civilians are displaced in northern Sri Lanka. Slowing rates of economic growth cast deep gloom around the world. Not a particularly auspicious moment to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writes Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

Peace in Sri Lanka - official government site
Tamil Eelam site
UNDP Sri Lanka
Amnesty International Report - Sri Lanka
World Food Programme - Sri Lanka
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