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Sri Lanka: Clearing the way

Categories: South Asia, Sri Lanka, Human Rights, War & Conflict

Jason Motlagh reports in Untold Stories [1]: “Journalists have been barred from covering the war in Sri Lanka's battered northern region, and now aid workers are out of the picture. As government forces aggressively advance toward the Tamil Tiger capital, Kilinochchi, tens of thousands of displaced Tamils have lost the only bulwark between them and two sides with grim human rights records.”