Sri Lanka in crucial need of monitoring mission: rights group
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Sri Lanka urgently needs an international  rights monitoring mission following Colombo's decision to pull out of a ceasefire pact with Tamil rebels, a London-based rights group said Saturday.
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader said Saturday the rebels would be compelled tolaunch the freedom struggle for the Tamil nation if peace talks were further delayed, the pro-rebel website TamilNet said.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s feared Tamil Tiger rebels has threatened to resume a two-decade war for self-rule that has killed more than 64,000 people if the government does not agree to discuss their demands soon.
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A United Nations investigator said on   Tuesday that "political killings" continued apace in Sri Lanka   and called for international human rights monitors to be sent   to the island.
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Sri Lanka&#039;s candidate for the UN secretary general post, Jayantha Dhanapala, is seeking the support of developing nations at this week&#039;s meeting of the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s main foreign donors warn some members of the country&#39;s ruling coalition are undermining the shaky peace process aimed at ending the decades-long civil war.
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US-based Human Rights Watch says the UN should send observers to monitor the fighting in Sri Lanka.
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A delegation sent by the U.N.'s top human rights official began a mission Wednesday to look into reports of brutality and serious abuses in the weeks of deadly violence since the country's disputed presidential election.
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Human Rights Watch urged the Indian government to launch a fresh probe into the mass killing of Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 20 years ago, and make a public commitment to prosecute those behind the violence.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said, as Japan's peace envoy began a visit to the war-battered island.
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A Norwegian delegation, lead by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen is presently in Sri Lanka, to try to find out if it is possible to re-start the peace process in the island nation.
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The international community is bullying Sri Lanka over human rights, the country's defence secretary says.
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International ceasefire monitors blamed   Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday for the killing of 17 aid   workers during fighting with Tamil tiger rebels earlier in the   month.
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While Sri Lanka's government and Tamil rebels trade daily accusations of truce-breaking and threaten each other with all-out war, observers and reporters keen to understand what is really happening are forced to try and read between the lines.
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Sri Lanka's main foreign donors voiced concern on Saturday at the island's escalating civil war, calling on the government and Tamil Tiger rebels to respect human rights as the death toll steadily climbs.
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A presidential commission in Sri Lanka investigating human rights abuses is in danger of failing, observers say.
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A dispute develops in Sri Lanka over whether the government has given enough aid to tsunami-hit Tamil areas.