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SRI LANKA
Poorest Still Go Hungry
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - Experts agree that Sri Lanka's free pre and postnatal clinics across the island nation have helped bring infant mortality down to 15 per 1,000 live births and the under-five mortality rate to 21 per 1,000 live births.
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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
Alive or Beheaded this Maid is a Heroine
By Aditya Alles
SHAFINAGAR, Sri Lanka - Will Rizana Fathima Nafeek return to this poverty-ridden coastal village in Sri Lanka alive and in one piece? Or will the beheading sentence passed on her by a Saudi Arabian court in 2007 be finally carried out?
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Sri Lankan Rights Abuses Obstruct Trade Efforts with Canada
By Fawzia Sheikh
TORONTO - Despite the crossfire of Canadian accusations of human rights violations by Sri Lanka at the end of its civil war and Colombo's corresponding counter-claims, the economically battered South Asian country aims to bolster its trading relationship with Canada and increase foreign direct investment.
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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
Catching Itself Young
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - When Sri Lanka extended the age of retirement for government workers from 55 to 57 years it defied criticism that the island’s public sector was overstaffed and needed serious downsizing.
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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 Lankan Jails ‘Hell’ for Females
By Ranmali Bandarage
COLOMBO - Monthly ‘visiting hours’ at the female ward of Sri Lanka’s notorious Welikada Prison are as traumatic for the inmates as they are for their family and friends. A tiny room, measuring 10 feet by seven feet, is divided in half by a mesh counter. On one side, mothers, fathers, children and relatives jostle for standing room. On the other the inmates, in white prison clothes, shout to be heard over the din.
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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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SRI LANKA
Saudi Death Sentence for Maid Shakes Govt
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - The Sri Lanka government is considering a further tightening of age restrictions on women leaving the country to become domestic workers. But some analysts say this is a quick-fix solution to the problem of women running afoul of the law abroad.
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SRI LANKA
No Cricket for This Tendulkar
By Amantha Perera
VAVUNIYA - His father named him after the famous Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar, one of the best sportsmen of his generation. But little Sachin Tendulkar from the northern Sri Lankan town of Vavuniya harbours no ambition of following in the footsteps of his illustrious namesake.
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As the Sri Lankan army pushes deep into rebel territory, the government claims that the island nation's quarter century ethnic war is now heading for a decisive showdown. The government has vowed to obliterate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have been fighting to create a separate Tamil homeland in the north and east of the island. As Sri Lanka slips deeper into the chasm of war, IPS brings you incisive reports from this tear-shaped island.