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Uploaded by on Jul 25, 2008

Despite Sri Lanka's Supreme Court issuing a stay order as a result of a fundamental rights petition filed by the residents; hundreds of Sri Lanka's poorest of the poor were evicted forciably as part of the preperations for the SAARC summit scheduled to be held in Colombo

*Clip taken from: www.sundaytimes.lk

Unlawful eviction:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=20886

more pictures of the eviction:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=20813

Journalists at the scene get assulated:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=20884

The current living conditions of the displaced residents:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=20924

The government's spin on the story:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=21105

Stay order by the Supreme court:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=20885

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  • what a piace of crap, y destroy the small homes of innocent civilians?

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