Word: lankans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the prolonged question-and-answer period after the Secretary's afternoon speech at the Yenching Library, a self-described Tamilese man gave Perez de Cuellar a sealed document entreating him, the man said, to "stop the killing" of Tamils by the Sri Lankan government...
...also ordered his troops to stamp out the separatists by force and, according to an Amnesty International report, had sent Tamils to prisons in which they have been brutally tortured. Forced in May to invoke the fifth state of emergency since Jayawardene took office in 1977, the Sri Lankan government last Saturday proposed a constitutional amendment that would ban the secessionist party, as well as all separatist activity...
Both sides were relying heavily on the skill and shrewdness of the five distinguished U.N. envoys. Much care had gone into choosing them: former Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. and U.N. Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, Algerian Chief U.N. Delegate Mohammed Bedjaoui, Syrian Career Diplomat Adib Daoudy, Sri Lankan Lawyer Hector W. ("Harry") Jayawardene, and French Human Rights Activist Louis-Edmond Pettiti...