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Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils rush towards the train &quot;Queen of Jaffna,&quot; after it arrived at Jaffna in Sri Lanka, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. The once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil's northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka arrived in Jaffna, 24 years after its suspension due to the country’s civil war. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Train service back in former Sri Lankan war zone

By JAYAMPATHI PALIPANE - Associated Press

Sri Lankans celebrate big cricket victory

Associated Press

Sri Lankan police arrest 2 human rights activists

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai walk together during an official reception for Karzai in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 6, 2014. Karzai is on a three-day official visit to Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

NATO airstrike kills 5 Afghan soldiers

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

US to press Sri Lanka again at UN rights council

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Myanmar demonstrators hold banners in support of President Thein Sein's objections to a Time magazine cover article titled "The Face of Buddhist Terror," at City Hall in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, June 30, 2013. Myanmar authorities banned the July 1 issue of the newsweekly because the article, which is about a Buddhist monk accused of fueling recent religious violence in the country. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Sri Lanka bans Time magazine issue on terrorism

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

On Saturday, April 27, 2013, a Buddhist (right) and a Muslim man a barricade they set up about a month earlier in Mingalar Taung Nyunt township in Yangon, Myanmar. As sectarian violence sweeps the country, threatening to destabilize its fragile democracy, fearful residents are taking charge of their own security. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

South Asian Muslims blame racism for attacks by Buddhists

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

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)

U.N. panel urges Sri Lanka to probe mass murders

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times