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[Sun, 06 Feb 2011, 12:08 GMT]

The occupying SL military in Jaffna is directly engaged in registration of individuals and families in the Jaffna peninsula in recent times. Everyday, covering area by area, the SL military, is distributing forms to collect information and is insisting of family photographs along with children to be given to them. The activity of the SL military, reminding the Nazi practice before the Holocaust, makes terror in the minds of the people in Jaffna, said a human rights activist in Jaffna. Meanwhile, undeclared curfew is imposed in Jaffna by the SL military and police, who have almost brought the street movement of people to an end after 6:00 p.m. by harassing them through numerous checkpoints after dusk. Full story >>

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