Court: End Tamil expulsions in Colombo
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Sri Lanka's highest court ordered police on Friday to stop expelling Tamils from the capital, a lawyer said, after a rights group warned the recent removal of hundreds of Tamils could further fuel a 24-year separatist ethnic conflict.
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Court orders a halt to the mass eviction of Tamils from the capital, but their fear of persecution remains
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Sri Lanka's government Wednesday decided to formally end a moribund peace process with Tamil rebels and withdraw from a ceasefire arranged by peace broker Norway, top officials told AFP.
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The government decided Wednesday to withdraw from an internationally brokered cease-fire that had largely collapsed since the resurgence of fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war two years ago, an official said.
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Human Rights Watch urged Indonesia to stop evicting tens of thousands of poor people from their homes in Jakarta.  A Human Rights Watch report, quoting numerous accounts of those evicted, alleged the city government's excessive use of force to clear out urban slums.
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Sri Lankan government to formally withdraw from its ceasefire with rebels amid escalating violence
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Police in Sri Lanka force hundreds of minority Tamils out of the capital, citing security concerns.
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ASIA/SRI LANKA - Il conflitto impedisce lÂistruzione di bambini e ragazzi, mentre si intensificano gli scontri Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Migliaia di bambini nel Nord dello Sri Lanka non possono frequentare la scuola a causa della recrudescenza del conflitto che agita lÂisola dellÂAsia del Sud, come denunciano i volontari del Jesuit Refugees Service, presenti ...
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The U.S. government has temporarily stopped deporting people to Sri Lanka and Maldives, two of the countries devastated by the tsunami disaster.
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A leading Sri Lankan opposition politician is given a prison sentence for defaming the supreme court.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 8 -- Sri Lanka's highest court ordered police on Friday to stop expelling ethnic Tamils from the capital, a lawyer said, after rights groups warned that the recent removal of hundreds of Tamils could further fuel a 24-year ethnic separatist conflict.
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A Japanese court dismissed a request to halt deportation proceedings against fugitive chess legend Bobby Fischer, his lawyers said Friday.
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Foreign tourists leave in a shuttle bound for Colombo leaving the provisional British High commission office set in the town of Galle, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Dec.29, 2004.
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[World News]: Colombo, Dec 27 : At least 5,880 people, including 70 foreigners, were killed in Sri Lanka a day after tsunamis wreaked havoc along most of the island&#39;s coastline, the military and Tamil rebels said today.
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 13 -- A court in Botswana ruled Wednesday that the government was wrong to evict thousands of Bushmen from their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and should allow one of Africa's most ancient peoples to return to land their families had occupied for centuries.
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ending a four-year battle. Officials said they were Pakistani economic migrants and not, as they had claimed, Afghans fleeing persecution.
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Sri Lanka's government decided on Wednesday to annul a six-year ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers which would allow a full-scale military campaign to recapture the rebels' de facto state in the north of the island.