Sri Lankan war crimes in spotlight

Green Left Online Wednesday 21st March, 2012

A refugee camp in northern Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is under pressure over repeated allegations of war crimes committed during its war against the pro-independence Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The war, which lasted nearly three decades, ended with the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009. An estimated 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the first fiv...

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