Police on Thursday ordered tens of thousands of Sri Lankans from the volatile Eastern Province, many of them minority Tamils, to register with police in a move heavily criticized by rights activists.
The demand came two weeks after police ordered the registration of tens of thousands of Tamils who came from the north, where the military is fighting a fierce war against ethnic Tamil separatists.
Human rights activists criticized those registrations as part of a campaign to intimidate Tamils.
The rebels have been fighting for an independent state in the north and east since 1983, following decades of marginalization of ethnic Tamils by governments …
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