COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president announced plans Thursday to end wartime emergency laws that have curbed civil and political liberties for the past 30 years.
The country has been under intense international pressure to sweep away the draconian measures now that more than two years have passed since the government’s victory in its bitter civil war against separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.
International: Sri Lanka president proposes to lift wartime emergency laws
August 25, 2011
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