Sri Lanka 'needs UN monitors'
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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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African monitors should deploy in camps to help protect the almost 1.5 million people displaced by the conflict in Darfur and should also monitor police to help build trust with the local community, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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A deadly new chapter in Sri Lanka's   two-decade civil war is putting the lives of thousands of   civilians at risk and derailing efforts to rebuild areas   devastated by the 2004 tsunami, a senior UN envoy said.
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International cease-fire monitors   blamed Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday for the killing of 17 aid   workers during fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels this month.
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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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The United Nations threatened overnight  to suspend aid operations in Sri Lanka after international  truce monitors accused government troops of executing aid  workers.
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Sri Lanka on Saturday asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan not to visit disaster-stricken areas controlled by the Tamil Tiger rebels, forcing the United Nations into a political situation it had hoped to avoid.
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Sri Lankan officials said Wednesday they will send troops to Haiti to assist the UN peacekeeping mission there. Nearly 750 soldiers from the small island nation off the coast of India with join 8,000 UN troops
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Sri Lanka has asked peace broker Norway to suspend contacts with the island's Tamil Tiger rebels pending a review of relations with the guerrillas.Comment
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Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has appealed to organizers to stop all scheduled functions forthwith for the national disaster that befallen Sri Lanka, official sources said Tuesday.
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The US secretary of state and UN secretary general are to visit Sri Lanka, where tensions have grown over tsunami aid.
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Under fire amid a rash of civil war  human rights abuses, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has  turned the tables on the United Nations, questioning its  efficiency, and ability to help tackle terrorism.
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A international panel set up to monitor a Sri Lankan probe into rights abuses warns it could end in failure.
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Sri Lanka has asked peace broker Norway to suspend contacts with the island's Tamil Tiger rebels pending a review of relations with the guerrillas, a top Sri Lankan official said.
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Sri Lanka appealed for international aid after declaring a state of disaster, as tsunamis unleashed by an undersea earthquake yesterday left more than 5,000 people dead and half-a-million homeless in the Indian Ocean island.
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International and Sri Lankan human rights campaigners called for a United Nations inquiry into abuses against civilians by Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces on the strife-torn island.
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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.