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Sri Lanka's Ominous Authoritarian Turn

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Feb 21, 2013
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The Mahinda Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka, more than three years after the end of the devastating civil war that paralyzed the country for 22 years, has instituted a virtual reign of terror against not only its defeated Tamil minority but against many of its own citizens in the south, critics say.

The government's repressive nature is hardly news. Vi…

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