No welfare for Sri Lanka’s Tamils
By Tony Birtley, Asia correspondent
Al Jazeera English, 6 July 2009
The latter stages of the war in Sri Lanka have been carefully choreographed and hidden from the outside world, with the voices of victims silenced through fear and insecurity.
There are allegations of war crimes, rape and torture, [...]
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