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- Sri Lanka - Tamil Tigers - United Nations


Colombo against international human rights probes
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Sri Lanka said it would only allow its own courts - and not international ones - to investigate reported human rights abuses and thousands of civilian deaths during the government's military campaign against Tamil Tigers, which ended in May.
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