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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.
Kumaran Pathmanathan, or 'KP', is the Tamil Tigers' current leader. Two months ago, he was snatched from a hotel in Malaysia and whisked back to Colombo. It seems Sri Lanka's government was behind the abduction.
This collection of footage presents a nation battling decades of civil war and seeing thousands of political arrests. Years of bloodshed in Sri Lanka places today's violence in its proper context.
This moving report looks back through 30 years of bloodshed in Sri Lanka to place today's violence in its proper context. Why did the ceasefire, agreed two years ago, falter?
Decades of civil war in Sri Lanka has seen tens of thousands of political arrests. Only in Saddam's Iraq have more people disappeared. Frustrated by disinterested authorities, relatives of the missing are growing desperate.
A clown from Wales goes back to his roots in Sri Lanka to provide comfort and humour to those directly affected by the Tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. A touching and uplifting examination, with some breath-taking scenes of this beautiful yet devastated coastline.
In Sri Lanka, 4 o'clock tea and cricket hark back to the great British Raj. But one other tradition lives on - the Mahagastota Hill Climb. And as in cricket, the Sri Lankans have overtaken the Brits. Cars of all shapes and sizes shoot up the hill in the quickest time possible.
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