amnestyusa.org,  Fri Feb  3 16:33:13 EST 2006

    Sri Lanka: Report - 'A climate of fear in the East'
Amnesty International welcomes the recent announcement that representatives of the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have agreed to meet in Switzerland this month to review the implementation of the cease-fire. The organisation urges that the issue of human rights monitoring be urgently addressed at these talks.

Amnesty International today published its report Sri Lanka: A climate of fear in the East, which documents the findings of an Amnesty International research mission in August 2005 to investigate reports of an escalation in political killings in the East of the country. The report documents human rights abuses including politically motivated killings, torture, abductions, and the recruitment of children as soldiers as well as harassment and extortion, resulting in the growing climate of fear. The report
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