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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar 13, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Many governments have used the internet to curtail freedom of expression at home, the US state department says in its latest annual human rights report.\n\nIn many cases new forms of electronic communications are restricted to control domestic dissent, it says. \n\nThe wide-ranging report also highlights continuing human rights violations in China against the Uighurs and extra-judicial killings in North Korea. \n\nIran, Sri Lanka, Burma and Switzerland also come in for criticism. \n\nUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the annual country reports - legally required by Congress - as "an important tool in the development of practical and effective human rights strategy by the United States government". \n\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'TNA releases election manifesto';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Federal solution based on shared sovereignty and right to self-determination in a contiguous north and east of Sri Lanka was the highlight of the TNA manifesto released Friday. While irreversibly committing on federal solution, the manifesto is ambiguous on the nature of the sovereignty of Eezham Tamils and their right to self determination, said Tamil political circles in their immediate responses. The term shared sovereignty is used to describe structures such as the European Union as well as federal structures with or without the right to secession. The manifesto refrains from either asserting to Tamils exercising their right to self determination to decide the national question in an internationally monitored arrangement or including the unavoidable diaspora in the political process of reaching a solution, the political circles commented further. \n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Tamil Refugee Suicidal After Police Attempts Rape in TN';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar 13, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'The Madras High Court has directed a Judicial Magistrate to record a fresh statement of a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, admitted to hospital in a serious condition after trying to commit suicide following an alleged attempt recently by police to rape her.\n\n"The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Karur, is directed to record a statement under section 164 Cr.PC from Padmadevi", Justice C T Selvam said in his order on a petition filed by M Pari, an advocate and social rights activist seeking a direction for recording a fresh statement from the victim.\n\nObserving that if the allegations of police atrocities were true, \'the matter would be of serious concern\'. The Judge, however, made it clear that the order permitting recording of a fresh statement would not in any manner prejudice the rights of any persons, who may be subsequently arraigned as accused.\n\nHe said \'though the Assistant Public Prosecutor objected to the very maintainability of the petition on the ground that the affidavit is filed by an advocate and on the strength of information gathered from another advocate, this court is of the view that technicalities should not stand in the way of considering the petition.\'\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'UNHCR refugee guidelines could deny asylum claims in Australia ';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'THE United Nations is reviewing its refugee guidelines for Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in a move that could see the Federal Government deny protection claims for the majority of asylum seekers heading to Australia. \nAs authorities confirmed a second boat of asylum seekers had been rescued off Australia\'s northwest coast in less than 24 hours, it emerged the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) was "actively reviewing" its assessment of the two war-torn countries.\n\nNavy personnel boarded a boat carrying eight passengers and four crew about 10pm (AEDT) last night, about 370 kilometres west of the Tiwi Islands. The boat - the 23rd illegal entry vessel intercepted in Australian waters this year - was initially sighted by air before HMAS Glenelg was called in.\n\nHMAS Glenelg rescued another boat carrying 24 asylum seekers and three crew about 220km northwest of the Tiwi Islands yesterday morning.\n\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Tamils say lives at risk if sent home';
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  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Tamil groups say the Australian Government is putting lives at risk by starting to send some asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka.\n\nThe Government says three Tamils were recently sent home and another 38 may be returned shortly as the situation improves following the end of the civil war last year.\n\nThe decision has been made ahead of new refugee guidelines from the United Nations, which are expected to reflect the improvements in Sri Lanka.\n\nBut Dr Victor Rajakulendran from the Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations says the Tamils are likely to be arrested as soon as they return home.\n\n"Even the opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka is under arrest and under investigation and all kinds of things are happening even for the powerful people like that," he said.\n\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Thanks For Your Concerns Canada But Sri Lanka Is A Sovereignity With Compassionate Intelligent Administrators!';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar 13, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Is this another surge of concern and sympathy by the Canadian Administration about Sri Lankan Tamils and their needs, lending credence to behind the scene lobbying by the Tamil separatist idealogists amongst others? one might ask! It was assumed to a greater part that the Harper Administration would not be misled by the Tamil Lobby in Canada and hopefully it isnt!\n\n Does Canada not give any credibility to what the world is seeing visibly as a genuine effort by the Rajapaksha Administration to attend to the needs of Sri Lankan Tamils or is Canada deliberately attempting to bypass this in order to appease the screeches and hoots of some Canadian Tamils inasmuch as previous administrations did in order to hold onto captive votes in various constituencies where Tamil votes were considered important towards retainig certain parliamentary seats relative to power in Ottawa!\n\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '\'Harassed\' by cops, Lankan woman attempts suicide';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar 13, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Shantidevi (name changed), a Sri Lankan refugee, committed self-immolation after a S-I allegedly outraged her modesty inside the police station in Karur on March 7. \n\nShe is battling for her life in a government hospital. The 27-year-old was staying in a refugee camp near Chennai. \n\nAccording to lawyers, police tried to prevent her from giving a "dying declaration" to a magistrate, and that what had been recorded was a watered down version obtained under duress and coercion. ';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans says the government is sending more Tamil asylum seekers back to their country as the situation improves in Sri Lanka. ';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar 12, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans says the government is sending more Tamil asylum seekers back to their country as the situation improves in Sri Lanka. \n\nThe United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) is looking at changing its international protection guidelines for Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers as those countries become safer. \n\nThe changes would pave the way for more detainees in Australia\'s Christmas Island holding camps to be returned to their country. \n\nSenator Evans says conditions in Sri Lanka are more positive. \n\nHe said: "What we will do is look at both the UN information but also other information.';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'India and China to Finance New Infrastructure in Sri Lanka';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar 12, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar. 12 – The governments of India and China plan to loan more than US$400 million to develop infrastructure on the South Asian island of Sri Lanka in separate deals inked over the past week.\n\nSri Lanka’s government signed a US$290 million deal with China to construct the Mattala Airport and upgrade the Sri Lankan Railway in the country’s Southern Province. Upon completion, the airport will become one of only two operational international airports in the country. The Chinese lending arm, Export-Import Bank, is also helping to construct a modern sea port in Hambantota.\nChina has been the island nation’s largest source of foreign funding in recent years, contributing US$1.2 billion in 2009. Sri Lankan officials said last week that funding from China accounts for more than half of the country’s construction and development loans.\n';
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  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Canada asks Sri Lanka to start talks with Tamil groups';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Mar 12, 2010';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '\n\nCanada has asked Sri Lanka to start talks and the reconciliation process with the Tamil groups, saying such a step is crucial for lasting peace in the country. \n\n\n\n"After 30 years of war, reconciliation is crucial for lasting peace in Sri Lanka. Canada awaits to see what steps the Government of Sri Lanka will take towards this reconciliation," Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, told Sri Lanka\'s new High Commissioner Chitranganee Wagiswara during a meeting. \n\n\n\n"Canada urges the government of Sri Lanka for an early safe return and resettlement of the approximately 100,000 individuals who remain displaced," Obhrai said. \n\n\n\nHe said: "Canada is encouraged by the return of close to 160,000 internally displaced persons to their homes." \n\n';
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