{"id":58031,"date":"2012-10-29T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=58031"},"modified":"2012-10-29T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T20:55:40","slug":"war-crimes-in-sri-lanka-have-been-ignored-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/war-crimes-in-sri-lanka-have-been-ignored-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"War Crimes In Sri Lanka Have Been Ignored Too Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world&#8217;s collective conscience. We remember and acknowledge the shame of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. We agonise about the failure to halt the atrocities in Syria. But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.&#8221;\u00a0<em>former foreign minister of Australia\u00a0<\/em><em><em>Gareth Evans writes. Read more in<\/em><\/em><strong><em><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/opinion\/world-commentary\/war-crimes-in-sri-lanka-have-been-ignored-too-long\/story-e6frg6ux-1226505591580\"> the\u00a0Australian\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[5999,6000,5381],"class_list":["post-58031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","tag-former-foreign-minister-of-australia-gareth-evans-on-sri-lanka","tag-gareth-evans-on-sri-lanka","tag-war-crime-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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