Sri Lanka in Turmoil: Implications of Intensified Conflict : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, November 14, 1995 |
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... areas of Sri Lanka . The LTTE controls territory in northern and eastern Sri Lanka through authoritarian rule , denying the people under its control their civil liberties . The LTTE regularly carries out extrajudicial killings ...
... areas of Sri Lanka . The LTTE controls territory in northern and eastern Sri Lanka through authoritarian rule , denying the people under its control their civil liberties . The LTTE regularly carries out extrajudicial killings ...
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... areas , which also could be the case . Indeed , both are probably true . Either way , there are now perhaps hundreds of thousands of civilians who have fled into the jungle with no shel- ter , no food , no sanitation , probably very ...
... areas , which also could be the case . Indeed , both are probably true . Either way , there are now perhaps hundreds of thousands of civilians who have fled into the jungle with no shel- ter , no food , no sanitation , probably very ...
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... areas of the north . At the barest minimum , I think this Congress should offer hu- manitarian aid - under international control - to prevent a disaster from occurring . We should call upon the international community to do the same ...
... areas of the north . At the barest minimum , I think this Congress should offer hu- manitarian aid - under international control - to prevent a disaster from occurring . We should call upon the international community to do the same ...
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... area . My familiarity with Sri Lanka is more episodic . I was a foreign correspondent , and before that a for- eign service officer for New Zealand , of all places , in the 1970's and 1980's . So , I have been there recurrently , and I ...
... area . My familiarity with Sri Lanka is more episodic . I was a foreign correspondent , and before that a for- eign service officer for New Zealand , of all places , in the 1970's and 1980's . So , I have been there recurrently , and I ...
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... areas under gov- ernment control . Second , the Sri Lankan Government must end the climate of im- punity . All past violations must be fully and impartially inves- tigated and those responsible prosecuted . Third , to prevent future ...
... areas under gov- ernment control . Second , the Sri Lankan Government must end the climate of im- punity . All past violations must be fully and impartially inves- tigated and those responsible prosecuted . Third , to prevent future ...
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allegations Ambassador Amnesty International Ampara Anuradhapura areas Armed terrorists shot assassination Batticaloa BEREUTER bomb Buddhist Buddhist monks cease-fire Chairman CLAD Colombo devolution devolution package disappearances displaced economic elections Estate Tamils ethnic conflict extrajudicial executions FALEOMAVAEGA Gibson Lanpher HIRC Government of Sri government's hacked to death human rights abuses human rights violations ICRC implemented Incident India Islamic Jaffna City Jaffna peninsula Jaffna Tamils Kantalai Liberation Tigers LTTE LTTE's majority McDonald Muslims negotiations Northern Pacific November 14 Parliament parties peace package persons Polonnaruwa President Kumaratunga proposals Record submitted refugees regions reported Secretary for South SINGER Sinhalese villagers South Asian Affairs Special Rapporteur Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Government Sri Lankan security Subcommittee on Asia submitted to Deputy Tamil Eelam Tamil Eelam LTTE Tamil Nadu Tamil population Tamil Tigers Terrorists attacked terrorists hacked terrorists shot dead Thank Tigers of Tamil torture Trincomalee UNHCR unilaterally Vavuniya