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...anytime soon. "When they [Tamil civilians] ask us whether we could guarantee that this would not happen again, we can not give an answer, there is a lot of fear among those who got caught in the drive, it will take some time for them feel safe here in Colombo," says Rukshan Fernando of the Colombo-based Law and Society Trust, which is helping some of the Tamils who returned to the capital after the Supreme Court ruling...
Even by Sri Lanka's standards, the forced eviction of 375 Tamils from the capital of Colombo last week seemed a step too far. The June 7 evictions, carried out by police and soldiers in a nighttime raid on areas of Colombo populated by the Tamil ethnic minority, was the latest chapter in the brutal civil war that pits government forces against Tamil-separatist militants in the country's north. "We were herded into buses like cattle and even when we were told we could go back to Colombo, we were warned to finish our work there and go back...
...Lanka's own Supreme Court brought the evictions to a halt the day after the first raid, issuing a stay order in response to a fundamental rights case filed by the Colombo-based think tank the Centre for Policy Alternatives. And the government found itself in the spotlight after the Sunday Leader, a local newspaper, published the contents of a letter written by Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police for the North and East, Mahinda Balasuriya, detailing directives issued by Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapakse for the eviction of Tamils...
...tenets of their professed faith. It's strange that every Mormon is assumed to embrace every point of doctrine. Maybe it says something about the high standards that people expect from us. But somehow, I don't think Romney's critics intend it as a compliment. Seth Bailey, Colombo...
...tenets of their professed faith. It's strange that every Mormon is assumed to embrace every point of doctrine. Maybe it says something about the high standards that people expect from us. But somehow, I don't think Romney's critics intend it as a compliment. Seth Bailey, COLOMBO, SRI LANKA...