Friday, January 7, 2011

Violence Is Returning To Northern Sri Lanka

Lawmakers: Violence Returns To Northern Sri Lanka -- Washington Post/AP

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's former war zone is again seeing unexplained killings, abductions and rapes despite tight security in the region, lawmakers said Thursday.

A group of ethnic Tamil lawmakers submitted to Parliament a list of 15 serious incidents that they say occurred in the northern Jaffna peninsula in the past two months. They asked the government to explain how such crimes could take place considering the area's security situation.

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My Comment: It will take years .... if not decades .... before there is any semblance of peace in this region.

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