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                    [Title] => Germany offers help for Sri Lankan probe of war atrocities
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Germany is ready to help Sri Lanka investigate alleged atrocities during its civil war, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-22 17:00:01 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1169191 [AuthorName] => Bharatha Mallawarachi [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 612767 [Title] => Government confirms 25 dead in Sri Lanka blast [Summary] =>

Three containers filled with explosives meant for road construction detonated outside a police station in eastern Sri Lanka, killing 25 people, most of them police officers, in a blast government officials called an accident.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-18 12:30:54 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 602342 [Title] => Tamil migrant ship docks in Canada [Summary] =>

A small ramshackle cargo ship crammed with hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka docked at a Canadian navy base on Friday after a grueling three-month journey.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-14 03:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 525412 [Title] => Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamil war refugees [Summary] =>

Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-22 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 493542 [Title] => Sri Lanka says new rebel leader arrested [Summary] =>

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – Sri Lanka says that a wanted arms smuggler who recently took over as the new leader of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels has been arrested overseas.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-07 03:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 478528 [Title] => Rights groups want probe into Sri Lanka war abuses [Summary] =>

COLOMBO (AP) – Human rights groups called Thursday for an international investigation into wartime abuses in Sri Lanka, saying the government lacks the political will to investigate the incidents on its own.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-18 20:07:48 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 469891 [Title] => Tamil Tigers are gone. What about the CPP/NPA? [Summary] =>

Our friends in Globe Telecom were in Cebu yesterday to launch its newest product they call the “DUO” Landline and Mobile in One.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 468542 [Title] => Sri Lanka rebels concede defeat in civil war [Summary] =>

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat yesterday in their fierce quarter-century war for a separate homeland as government forces raced to clear the last pockets of rebel resistance from the war zone in the north.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-18 01:24:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 466210 [Title] => Doctor says up to 1,000 dead in Sri Lanka shelling [Summary] => COLOMBO (AP) – Two days of shelling in Sri Lanka's northern war zone killed at least 430 civilians — and likely as many as 1,000 — a government doctor in the area said Monday. [DatePublished] => 2009-05-11 16:03:13 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 462822 [Title] => Official: Shelling in Sri Lanka war zone kills 10 [Summary] => COLOMBO (AP) – The Sri Lankan military fired scores of artillery shells into the northern war zone overnight, killing at least 10 civilians despite a pledge to stop using heavy weapons in its offensive against the Tamil Tiger rebels, a health official in the region said Friday. [DatePublished] => 2009-05-01 18:10:33 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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