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About 300,000 people are now estimated to be internally displaced in Kyrgyzstan by ethnic violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday, citing information from the Kyrgyz interim government and non-governmental organizations.
:http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/kyrgyzstan.displaced/index.html?hpt=T2About 300,000 people are now estimated to be internally displaced in Kyrgyzstan by... more
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The central government of Sri Lanka has won a few months ago, apparently permanently, a decades old civil war against Tamil separatists living in the north of the island, or rather against Tamil Tigers, the armed political organization that has long dominated the area. After the victory it was hoped that the Sri Lankan Government would abandon the policy of repression against all forms of opposition that has always carried with the convenient excuse of fighting terrorism. But nothing like that happened.The central government of Sri Lanka has won a few months ago, apparently permanently,... more
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The government has made amazing promises after the tragedies of Abruzzo and Viareggio. Two very different events. The first an earthquake that has caused 308 deaths and about 65,000 displaced persons. The second a rail disaster that killed 28 people, many of them seriously wounded who died as a result of injuries. For the living concern is needed, for the dead only the truth, wrote the French philosopher Voltaire.The government has made amazing promises after the tragedies of Abruzzo and Viareggio.... more
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