Rights Group to Check Sri Lanka Conditions
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The human rights watchdog group Amnesty International will send a team to Sri Lanka next month to assess human rights on the island, Prime Minister Dingiri Wijetunge told Parliament.
He said the team would be free to visit prisons and detention camps and to meet lawyers and non-governmental groups.
Human rights activists say about 60,000 people, mostly young men, have disappeared or been killed in Sri Lanka since 1987 as the government cracked down on left-wing Sinhalese rebels.
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