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		<title>Criticized by the West for its human rights abuses, Sri Lanka turns to the East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations recently announced that internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka, housed in refugee camps since the time they fled their homes during the final and fatal offensive against the LTTE, can now go back to their homes. The questions are whether they still have homes to go back to and how safe is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN warns over inhuman treatment of Tamil refugees</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/un-warns-over-inhuman-treatment-of-tamil-refugees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[civil war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defeat of LTTE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[security checks and surveillance of Tamil IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[separatism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The UN is said to be ‘devoting special energy to the displaced Tamils, most still interned in camps, because the issue was critical for the country&#8217;s future.’ Assessing the condition that the internally-displaced Tamils are in, the UN believes that the Tamil refugees’ situation is ‘putting reconciliation at risk.’ This is because the sordid reality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudan’s Self-Destruction in 2011</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/sudan%e2%80%99s-self-destruction-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[armed militias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crimes against humanity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darfur war]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamist state in Sudan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[referendum for South Sudan independence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[subversion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Hague]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Sudan, warlordism makes for uniquely legitimate military infrastructure. The Islamist government in Khartoum is headed by one General Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s chief warlord, who, in spite of an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, continues to ignore the due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darfur needs Obama now</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/darfur-needs-obama-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=15959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been other genocides apart from the one in Sudan. There had been systematic killing of populations in Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The difference with the genocide in Darfur is that Omar al-Bashir, the perpetrator of the genocide, carries on his mockery of the justice system, ignores his arrest warrant for crimes against humanity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan pleads for aid relief for its 2 million internally displaced persons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=15140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the hundreds of thousands displaced by the fighting in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, there has been very little actual assistance from both international NGOs and the Pakistani government itself. The numbers are mind-boggling: 200,000 additional internally displaced persons (IDPs) pouring in everyday into refugee camps. Pakistani military forces are deep in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abductions of Tamil children suspected of being former LTTE child soldiers</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/abductions-of-tamil-children-suspected-of-being-former-ltte-child-soldiers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 01:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abductions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Tamil children were displaced along with their families due to the intense fighting between Sri Lankan troops and the guerrilla group Tamil Tigers that saw the bloody defeat of the latter. These children are among the thousands now packed in refugee camps that have been observed as virtual prison camps. International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: fighting intensifies, humanitarian crisis worsens</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/pakistan-fighting-intensifies-humanitarian-crisis-worsens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 03:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[internally displaced persons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[military offensive]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, the Pakistani army was able to enter Mingora, the main town of the Swat valley in the northwest. Confrontations with the Taliban militants continue. According to a spokesman for the army, Major General Athar Abbas, the insurgents were driven from several quarters, and 17 rebels, including an important commander, were killed over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tamil refugee camps: welfare villages as concentration camps?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/tamil-refugee-camps-welfare-villages-as-concentration-camps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 02:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The victory over the Tamil Tigers leaves questions about the future of Sri Lanka and the condition of a quarter of a million refugees. Several humanitarian agencies have asked the government to ensure access to refugee camps controlled by government troops who suspect that rebels are hiding among the civilians. Gordon Weiss, spokesman for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka defeating Tamil Tigers: wrong way to quell an insurgency?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/sri-lanka-defeating-tamil-tigers-wrong-way-to-quell-an-insurgency/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/sri-lanka-defeating-tamil-tigers-wrong-way-to-quell-an-insurgency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 19:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=14871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or more commonly called Tamil Tigers has been one of the more savage militant groups that have ever been formed. The group has been notorious in undertaking suicide bombings, as well as recruiting child soldiers. It is also known to have engaged in arms trafficking. The Tamil Tigers [...]]]></description>
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