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		<title>Floods threaten camp detainees: SL Govt’s failure to free them Worsens Situation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The government bears full responsibility for the situation in the camps, locking families up in squalid conditions and then blaming aid agencies for their plight is downright shameful,&#8221; said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

Heavy rains have flooded the camps for ethnic Tamils displaced by the fighting in northern Sri Lanka, where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will fill K.P.’s vacuum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tamil diaspora does not appear to be much perturbed over the arrest of K.P alias Kumar Pathmanathan. There are also no signs of chaos and confusion among them going by the announcements made from time to time. It is indeed  something intriguing and baffling why  the Diaspora which stages demonstrations on even  trifles is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monsoon onset raising fears for Sri Lanka war‐displaced – Reuters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The onset of monsoon rains in Sri Lanka is raising fears for the safety of thousands of war‐displaced Tamils after rain flooded camps, ruined shelters and caused sewage to overflow, aid workers said on Tuesday.
Around 280,000 Tamils are being held in Manik Farm camp in the Indian Ocean island’s north, after government forces defeated Tamil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaiko wants children named Prabhakaran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking to virtually challenge the State government on its ‘no support to banned outfits’ notification, MDMK supremo Vaiko on Tuesday appealed the people of Tamil Nadu to name the newborn babies as Prabhakaran.

Addressing a function organised by the Periyar Dravida Kazhagam (PDK) to honour its cadre who had been imprisoned under the National Security Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka to maintain defence budget &#8211; Gotabhaya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sri Lankan government plans to keep up record defence spending despite its recent victory over Tamil rebels that ended nearly four decades of fighting, Defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse has said. Adding that the military needed to be modernised and payments made on hardware bought on credit.

Sri Lankaraised its defence budget to a record 1.6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Chief failed during Lankan visit &#8211; Norwegian diplomat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norway’s UN Ambassador Mona Juul has criticized United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon&#8217;s leadership style including his role during his recent visit to Sri Lanka, where she maintained he had failed in his capacity as UN leader, the Oslo daily Aftenposten reported Wednesday.

Ban was said to have &#8216;regular outbursts&#8217; making it hard to work with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRO honors the memory of humanitarian workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this, the inaugural “World Humanitarian Day”, Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) honors the memory of humanitarian workers throughout the world who have laid down their lives in selfless service to those affected by war or natural disaster, said a press release by TRO on Wednesday.

The press release further added: Humanitarian workers in Sri Lanka, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USTPAC honor the humanitarian workers killed by the Sri Lankan government since 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first Commemoration of World Humanitarian Day; USTPAC, US Tamil Political Action Council issued a media release in rememberance and to honor the 105 humanitarian workers who have been killed by the Sri Lankan government since 2005.
This year, on August 19th, the international community will pay tribute to the brave humanitarian workers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>None left to take over LTTE ‐ Karuna</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebel turned politico Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan aka Karuna Amman, speaking to Daily Mirror online, said that there is no one left to take over the reigns of the LTTE, following the capture of Kumaran Pathmanadan (KP) and that now the outfit was virtually extinct.

Mr. Muralitharan said that he didn’t think there were anymore LTTE cadres of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka used British weapons on Tamil civilians &#8211; British parliamentary committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A British House of Commons committee in its annual report has claimed that arms made in Britain and exported to Sri Lanka may have been fired on civilians during war against Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, British media Channel 4 reported.
In the report, the cross-party committees on arms export controls recommended the government should review [...]]]></description>
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