Sri Lanka's new president welcomes dissidents home
Newspapers for sale are seen at a stall in Colombo on January 10, 2015, featuring headlines about Sri Lanka's new president Maithripala Sirisena ©Lakruwan Wanniarachchi (AFP)
By AFP-10 January 2015
New President Maithripala Sirisena invited exiled dissidents back to Sri Lanka and promised to end censorship Saturday as he began to turn the page on the authoritarian rule of his toppled predecessor.
