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October 23, 2009

US Urges Sri Lanka to Probe War Crimes in Tamil War
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In Sri Lanka, some 4,000 ethnic Tamils have been released from
government-run prison camps and cleared to return home. The freed
civilians are among some 270,000 Tamils forced into the camps after the
Sri Lankan civil war ended with bloody clashes earlier this year. Their
release comes as the State Department has called on the Sri Lankan
government to investigate what it calls “credible” allegations of war
crimes during the civil war’s final months. Between 7,000 and 20,000
Tamil civilians are believed to have died between January and May of
this year.