COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it had invited U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to visit camps where 200,000 people are being held after fleeing the closing battles of the island nation’s war against Tamil Tiger separatists.
CHENNAI, India (AFP) — The head of India’s ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, cancelled two planned election rallies Wednesday in the country’s ethnic Tamil-dominated south, officials said. Party officials, however, denied the decision was sparked by security fears linked to the war on Tamil Tiger rebels in nearby Sri Lanka, which has prompted furious … Continue reading
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