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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said India’s example of multicultural democracy should serve as a model for neighbouring Sri Lanka.
Speaking in the South Indian city of Chennai , Clinton said, "Every Sri Lankan deserves the same hope and opportunity."
“India's diverse democratic system in which people from all faith and background participate equally, serves as a model for Sri Lanka as it pursues for a political reconciliation.” said Hilary Clinton
Mrs Clinton's three-day visit is her second to India as secretary of state and follows President Barack Obama's trip last November.
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Building a new life after the war in Sri Lanka
South AsiaWorld
21 July 2011 Last updated at 01:17 ET
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Tamil civilians are returning to their home villages in the north two years after the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Access to the region for outsiders has been heavily restricted by the military for many years but the rules have just been relaxed.
The BBC's Charles Haviland is the first journalist to travel there and meet those trying to rebuild their lives. He sent this report from Kilinochchi district, once the headquarters of the Tamil Tigers.
But new huts are now scattered among the trees. There is a bonfire by the roadside and small shops that returnees have opened.
A few soldiers pass on bicycles. People walk by the roadside like strangers rediscovering the land of their roots. Hundreds of thousands have left army-run camps to come home.
Entry to this region has been heavily restricted for years. But the BBC was given unconfined, though temporary, access to Kilinochchi district. Full Story>>>
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Tamil civilians are returning to their home villages in the north two years after the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Access to the region for outsiders has been heavily restricted by the military for many years but the rules have just been relaxed.
The BBC's Charles Haviland is the first journalist to travel there and meet those trying to rebuild their lives. He sent this report from Kilinochchi district, once the headquarters of the Tamil Tigers.
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Hard times in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged north
South Asia 21 July 2011
In Kilinochchi, people have a difficult homecoming
The dirt road leading south-west from Kilinochchi town is pale red, the colour of the soil of the Vanni, the northerly extreme of the Sri Lankan mainland.
It is a land that lost all its people. They retreated with the Tamil Tigers as the civil war swept through Kilinochchi more than two years ago. There are burnt-out husks of houses. But new huts are now scattered among the trees. There is a bonfire by the roadside and small shops that returnees have opened.
A few soldiers pass on bicycles. People walk by the roadside like strangers rediscovering the land of their roots. Hundreds of thousands have left army-run camps to come home.
Entry to this region has been heavily restricted for years. But the BBC was given unconfined, though temporary, access to Kilinochchi district. Full Story>>>
