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"The Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Colombo was the occasion for renewed demands that the state account for the brutal ending of its war with the Tamil Tigers in 2009. But Sri Lanka's appalling human-rights record does not only apply to its violent past: today too civil-society organisations are under heavy authoritarian pressure."Via http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/dhananjayan-sriskandarajah/sri-lanka’s-twin-challenges#.Up5rBiTpqfA.twittersource: www.opendemocracy.net