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Sri Lanka lifts emergency laws after defeat of rebels
COLOMBO : Sri Lanka's president announced Thursday that emergency laws in force for 28 years to deal with the armed Tami
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's president announced Thursday that emergency laws in force for 28 years to deal with the armed Tamil separatist movement would be lifted following the rebels' defeat in 2009.
"I am satisfied that there is no need to have the state of emergency any more," President Mahinda Rajapakse said in a speech to parliament.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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