[AFP]

India on Tuesday encouraged neighbouring Sri Lanka to implement findings of a probe into the island’s bloody civil war as a way to improve ethnic relations after decades of bloodshed.

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[BBC]

India’s foreign minister has urged Sri Lanka to move forward with reconciliation and constitutional reform on a trip to the island nation.

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[AFP]

Japan, a top aid giver to Sri Lanka, on Wednesday urged the island’s government to probe war crimes allegedly committed while defeating Tamil rebels and pressed Colombo to improve human rights.

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[Journal of Foreign Relations]

After three decades of war, Sri Lanka is still a mess. President Mahinda Rajapaksa could not care less about national reconciliation. Here is a president who did not hesitate to assert his authority at the end of the war. Yet now, he is afraid to be a strong and thoughtful leader, reluctant to take a stand.

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