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Protests Highlighting Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Violations To Be Held on February 4th and 6th 2010
SRI LANKA: A Nation Struggles to Forget a Tragedy
PERALIYA, Sri Lanka, Dec 29 (IPS) – Waves hitting a train and carriages half submerged in water. Scores of men, women and children leaping above the water, hands outstretched, bodies strewn all over.
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Sri Lankan aid projects investigated
NEARLY $537 million in tsunami aid for Sri Lanka is unaccounted for and more than $686m has been spent on projects unrelated to the disaster, an anti-corruption watchdog says. Berlin-based Transparency International has demanded an audit of the money received by the Sri Lankan government to help victims of the Asian tsunami that hit the island on December 26, 2004, killing 31,000 people. Click here for full article.
War crimes probe request ‘referred’
The Sri Lankan government says it is seeking advice on a request by the United Nations for a war crimes probe. Sri Lanka’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that a letter by UN Special Rapporteur on Extra- judicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions Philip Alston has been referred “for advice on the cause of action to be taken on the issues”. Click here to read more.
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