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    Sri Lanka Gains UN Backing for Aid Operations

    By Ma. Rizza Leonzon // 28 May 2009

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    The United Nations Human Rights Council backed Sri Lanka's humanitarian operations following the end of a 25-year civil war in the Asian nation. The emergency session resolution did not specify giving U.N. agencies full access to some 300,000 people in army-led camps, according to

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