UNHCR calls on Sri Lankan government to rethink buffer zone plan
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The UN's refugee agency called on the Sri Lankan government to rethink plans to create a coastal buffer zone, arguing it would swell the ranks of the hundreds of thousands already displaced by last month's tsunami.
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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.
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Sri Lanka's military on Wednesday accused the Tamil Tigers of using a U.N.-led aid convoy as a smokescreen to move rebel fighters and munitions toward their defense lines.
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Aid workers warned Saturday of a humanitarian catastrophe if the United Nations and Red Cross pull out of Sri Lanka, where agency staff are facing mounting restrictions and threats to their safety amid a worsening civil conflict.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s government condemned a threat by Tamil Tiger rebels to return to fighting unless peace talks based on their demand for autonomy are revived.
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The Sri Lankan government said a wave of killings blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels was undermining confidence in the peace process which has been stalled since April 2003.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have complained to Scandinavian truce monitors that government troops attacked them and have warned the fragile peace process could collapse.
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An "ambitious and unachievable" policy of removing failed asylum seekers led to a major fire and riots at a key detention centre, says a report.
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The United States and two other international donors have criticized Sri Lanka&#39;s coalition government, after one of its partners made statements the donors say could disrupt efforts to restart peace talks with separatist rebels.
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Sri Lanka announces tough anti-terror laws amid worsening violence between troops and Tamil rebels.
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Norway, which is the peace broker in Sri Lanka, has asked Tamil rebel group LTTE to stop killing its political rivals as such killings are jeopardising the peace process in the island nation.
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The UN says it is "deeply concerned" that civilian areas are being shelled by both sides in Sri Lanka's conflict.
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Sri Lanka's threadbare truce has come under further pressure following decisions by Finland and Denmark to remove their monitors as Tamil rebels and government troops braced for a showdown.
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PETER CAVE: As the death toll rises, the Sri Lankan Government has appealed to doctors all over the world to come forward and help the victims.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s army has closed off entry points to areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels for the first day since a 2002 ceasefire after Red Cross officials said they feared for their safety amid sporadic violence.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep 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 flew to the war-battered island.
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A month after a massacre left more than 150 Congolese dead at a transit centre in Burundi after they had fled ethnic fighting in their own country, the United Nations refugee agency is preparing to relocate thousands of others away from the border area to