Posts Tagged ‘U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights’

Sri Lankan journalist attacked ‘with iron bars’

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

[AFP]

An ethnic Tamil journalist in Sri Lanka’s formerly embattled north was brutally attacked with iron bars, police said on Saturday, the latest in a string of assaults on the nation’s media.

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Sri Lanka seeks new international laws to fight terrorism

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

[Reuters]

Sri Lanka on Tuesday argued that the spread of terrorist groups worldwide requires a revamping of the international laws of war, which put governments at a disadvantage against foes that do not have to follow them.

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