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Is Australia's immigration policy in breach of UN conventions on asylum seekers? Damning first hand accounts now suggest Sri Lankan refugees have been placed straight back into hands of their torturers.
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The Dutch Burgher community occupy a unique place in modern Sri Lanka. Once a privileged class, their exalted status vanished on independence. Despite this, a small group stayed. Their story is a fascinating insight into the wicked and glamorous world of colonialism and its legacy.
Sri Lanka celebrated its first year of peace last year after two decades of devastating civil war. A ceasefire has been in place since February 2002, allowing thousands of refugees to return to their homes and see their families for the first time in years. Many make the journey through minefields and a battle-scarred landscape along a road known during the war as the Highway of Death but since t…
Sri Lanka is looking forward to a "peace dividend" to revive its battered economy after 20 years of civil war. The conflict with Tamil separatists in the north has been hugely expensive in both human and economic terms. In the last year of fighting the economy shrank for the first time since independence - one of the factors that persuaded both sides the war had to end. But since the ceasefire i…
We get a glimpse at one of the Tamil Tigers' most effective weapons - the camera teams shooting the Tigers' propaganda videos.
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