Sri Lanka Catholics urge Tamils' release
Posted: August 16, 2009 at 4:44 a.m.
Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic leaders called for the release of ethnic Tamils held in military-run displacement camps on Saturday, saying they are confined like prisoners behind barbed wire.
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