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A man is released from prison in Sri Lanka after being held on remand for 50 years without conviction.
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Air raids, roadside blasts, suicide bombings, land and sea battles and thousands killed. So much for the 2002 ceasefire between Sri Lanka's army and the Tamil Tigers.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s feared Tamil Tiger rebels have threatened to resume a two-decade war for self-rule that killed more than 64,000 people if the government does not agree to discuss their demands soon.
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KANKASANTURAI, Sri Lanka  - Firing artillery   shells toward Tamil Tiger positions as fighting flares despite   peace talk pledges, Sri Lankan gunner Herath Rajaratne longs   for the day he can return to his family and civilian life.
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Sri Lanka's government lifts a 30-year moratorium on capital punishment, following the killing of a high court judge.
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The retrial of a 1964 case evokes echoes of a racist past in a much-changed South.
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Sri Lanka said on Saturday it was reactivating its dormant death penalty for murder, rape and drug trafficking after a near 30-year lull following the murder of a top high court judge in the capital.
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An ex-leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, Col Karuna, is jailed for nine months in the UK for identity fraud.
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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts said.
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The city of Jaffna has been in the center of the bitter civil war in Sri Lanka that has gone on for nearly 25 years.
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A U.S. military appeals court on Monday reinstated terrorism charges against a Canadian prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for more than five years.
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Sanath Jayasuriya&#39;s century put Sri Lanka in a strong position after the third day of the first Test against Pakistan in Faisalabad.
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Croatia's Supreme Court has ordered a  retrial of eight former military policemen acquitted in 2002 of  killing and torturing Serb prisoners a decade earlier, state  radio reported on Thursday.
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Security is tight in Colombo as Sri Lanka marks 60 years of independence amid renewed unrest.
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KANNAPURAM EAST, Sri Lanka  - Tamil farmer Sabaratnam Somaratnam abandoned his home in east Sri Lanka fearing it might be shelled.
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A woman who was sectioned for 70 years after being wrongly accused of theft is reunited with her family.
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The special prosecutor charged with probing decades-old human rights abuses allegedly committed by the government said Thursday he plans to charge more than 50 people this year with involvement in the nation's so-called "dirty war."