Sri Lanka

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Indian Tamil activists and supporters lie on a road and shout slogans during a protest against Sri Lanka's alleged wartime abuses in Chennai, India, on March 21, 2013. A key ethnic Tamil party withdrew from India's coalition government Tuesday, accusing the government of watering down a U.N. resolution criticizing Sri Lanka's war-time conduct against its minority Tamil population. The party has demanded the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution accuse Sri Lanka of genocide and that it leads to the formation of an international inquiry into possible war crimes. (Associated Press)

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associated press An Indian Tamil activist shouts slogans Wednesday in Mumbai during a protest against Sri Lanka’s alleged wartime abuses. A key ethnic Tamil party withdrew from India’s coalition government Tuesday, and it has demanded that the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution accuse Sri Lanka of genocide against the minority Tamil population.

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Sri Lankan inmates shout from a roof of a prison building as prison guards assist an injured colleague, foreground right, outside a prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Sri Lankan prison inmates lie on a road after being shot following a escape attempt outside a prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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In this photo taken May 7, 2012, Ravindra Udayashantha, a 38-year-old town council chairman, displays an army identity card that he seized from one of the men from a white van, in Kolonnawa, suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Udayashantha dramatically pre-empted an abduction attempt when he and his entourage surrounded the men from a suspicious white van that pulled alongside him at a Colombo park and captured them. Eventually, at gunpoint, the men admitted who they were: Sri Lankan government soldiers. In Sri Lanka, anyone who has crossed someone of importance is wary of white vans, said to be the vehicles of choice for shadowy squads who ''disappear'' opponents of powerful people. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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The various stages of an annular solar, or "ring of fire," eclipse over Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, are pictured on Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)