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UN must learn lessons of Sri Lanka tragedy
The disturbing United Nations report on how it handled the final stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war, goes to the heart of what the UN is for, writes Callum Macrae, director of Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields.
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Taxman fails to get his teeth into Apple’s overseas profits
Apple paid less than 2 per cent on its profits to the taxman outside the US, despite its overseas profits surging by more than 50 per cent, documents reveal.
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UK returns 36 asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka
Colombo sources tells Channel 4 News that an aircraft chartered by the British government to forcibly return failed Sri Lankan asylum-seekers has landed in the city.
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Last-minute reprieve for Sri Lankan deportees
Scores of Sri Lankans, due to have been deported from the UK on a government charter flight on Thursday afternoon, have had their removal orders overturned by high court judges.
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UK ‘to deport 100 Tamils’ as Sri Lanka fights UN resolution
A plane chartered by the British government is to deport about 100 Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, according to a human rights charity.
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Sri Lankan ex-army chief jailed for war crime ‘lies’
Sri Lanka adds three years to a former army chief’s jail sentence for “making false allegations” that the defence secretary ordered government forces to commit war crimes.
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Sri Lanka ‘still torturing’ Tamils
Sri Lanka’s civil war ended with “credible” evidence that war crimes were committed. Now Channel 4 News can reveal mounting evidence that the government is still torturing Tamil prisoners.
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What was Werritty doing meeting Sri Lanka's regime?
On his last trip to Sri Lanka, Defence Secretary Liam Fox called on the country to properly investigate its actions at the end of the civil war. But what, blogs Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear, was Adam Werritty doing at Mr Fox’s meetings with the regime?
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Critical Sri Lanka report sent to Human Rights Council
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has sent a report highly critical of the actions of government troops in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war to the UN Human Rights Council.
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Sri Lankan ‘war crimes’ inquiry ‘fundamentally flawed’
The Sri Lankan government’s inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the country’s civil war is “fundamentally flawed”, an Amnesty International investigation finds.
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The Sri Lankan soldiers ‘whose hearts turned to stone’
Exclusive: As the Sri Lankan war approached its endgame, 130,000 civilians were trapped along a small strip of beach. An eyewitness recalls the bloodshed that followed and how civilians were targeted.
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England cricketers take on Sri Lanka amid controversy
England take on Sri Lanka amid controversy over alleged war crimes at the end of that country’s civil war. But the English cricket authority tells Channel 4 News it’s sport, not politics.
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UK goes ahead with deporting 42 Sri Lankan asylum seekers
Lawyers fail in attempts to stop deportations, as MPs, human rights groups and lawyers condemn the removal of failed asylum seekers to Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lankan who attemped suicide wins reprieve
Nagendrarajah Suthakaran won a reprieve against his deportation after he tried to kill himself. He speaks exclusively to Jonathan Miller about his fears of being sent back to Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: UK urges war crimes probe
David Cameron calls for an investigation into Sri Lanka allegations as the FCO says “convincing evidence of violations of human rights” were aired in the Channel 4 documentary Killing Fields.