Sri Lanka bans BBC again from war inquiry panel

The BBC has been banned for a third time from covering an official panel's investigation into the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war.

The panel visited Tamil prisoners at a top-security jail in Boosa in the south of the country.
But the BBC correspondent and a number of Sri Lankan journalists were turned away at the prison gates.
The 26-year conflict ended in May last year with victory for government forces over the Tamil Tiger separatists.

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The BBC's Charles Haviland says Boosa jail holds about 700 Tamil Tiger suspects, some of whom have been detained for years without trial.Sri Lanka bans BB CFullStory