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US Senate Panel Discusses Sri Lanka
[Voice of America]
A U.S. Senate committee Tuesday focused its attention on the situation in Sri Lanka, where the military is engaged in an intense battle with Tamil Tigers as the two sides struggle for control of what is believed to be the last of the rebel strongholds. Witnesses at the Senate hearing decried the actions of both sides in one of Asia's longest running wars. Anna Neistat, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, told a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing that human rights violations are being committed by both sides in Sri Lanka's 25-year-old conflict.
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Anna Neistat Bob Dietz Committee on Foreign Relations Committee to Protect Journalists Former US Ambassador Human Rights Watch Jeffrey Lunstead Senate United States Voice of America
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