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Sri Lanka hopes for better days
At the beginning of September 2011, two years after the end of civil war, emergency rule was lifted. So is Sri Lanka on the road to recovery? It depends on who you ask and how you look at it.
Photograph © Michael Coyne
- ucanews.com Friday 16 November 2012
Defeated Tamils complain of continued persecution; the UN lambasts the country’s human rights record; the secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference calls the peace “illusory” and says tolerance is on the wane.
Photograph © Michael Coyne
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