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Buddhist clergy stage protest rally
[TamilNet, October 01, 1997]

The interim report of the Sinhala Commission continued to create
powerful reverberations in the Sinhala polity as more than 1500
people, including five hundred Buddhist monks, gathered yesterday to
muster public support for the 'Sinhala cause'.

Relatives of Jaffna's 'disappeared' protest
[TamilNet, October 01, 1997]

Parents and relatives of Tamil civilians who have 'disappeared' in Sri
Lankan army custody staged a protest on Sunday in the premises of
Jaffna's St. James Church, and vowed to continue their struggle for
justice. Several hundred Tamils have disappeared after being arrested
by the Sri Lankan army, which captured the Jaffna peninsula in early
1996.

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