In Sri Lanka, signs of war slowly being erased, but not the scars

The beaming face of President Mahinda Rajapaksa is everywhere in northern Sri Lanka, but international authorities want to look at his administration’s human rights record.

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by Josh Marlow March 12, 2014 

Five years after end of bitter civil war, an international push to increase scrutiny over human rights record of victors

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Along the major roads of northern Sri Lanka, the signs of 26 years of war between the mostly Hindu Tamil separatists and the Sinhalese Buddhist-dominated government are slowly being erased.

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