Sri Lanka: HRW calls on GoSL to end illegal internment of IDPs in Mannaar (TamilNet)
Yahoo July 2nd, 2008The New York based Human Rights Watch has voiced against the illegal internment of around 400 Internally Displaced Tamils, who are languishing under Sri Lanka Army detention in a so-called ‘welfare center’ in Ka’limoaddai in Naanaaddaan division of Mannaar district. Since March 2008, the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has detained civilians fleeing areas controlled by the rebel Liberation Tigers …
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