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Human rights campaigners say conditions for minorities and dissenting voices have not improved in Sri Lanka since the end of the civil war.
They say many activists have been kidnapped or murdered in recent months.
The international community is debating a UN resolution calling on Sri Lanka to investigate alleged war crimes in the final months of the civil war.
The government's own inquiry made similar recommendations, but president Mahinda Rajapaksa continues to staunchly defend the military's conduct in those final battles.
He opposes international monitoring in his country and says the UN is risking the process of reconciliation he says is already underway.
In the northern city of Jaffna, the government is investing heavily in post-war reconstruction. New roads, schools and hospitals are being built, while the private sector is developing shopping centres and hotels.
But these surface improvements cannot paper over the evidence of three decades of civil war, nor ease the tension of the three years since. Full Story>>>
