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** FILE ** An abandoned U.N. World Food Program vehicle sits amid the devastation from Sri Lanka's civil war in the conflict zone on the country's northeast coast in May 2009. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Government supporters hold a national flag during a rally against an American-backed proposed U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged human rights abuses during the country's civil war, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Sri Lanka ambassador to the U.S. Jaliya Wickramasuriya. (J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times)

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In this photo from Aug. 18, 1976, Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi speaks to the summit meeting of the nonaligned nations in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Associated Press)

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A police officer accompanies a Sri Lankan polling official as he carries election material in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Friday, July 22, 2011. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)

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A swath of paddy fields is submerged by floodwaters in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan police officers inspect the site of an explosion at a police station in Karadiyanaru, a small town in the former conflict zone in eastern Sri Lanka, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Three containers filled with explosives meant for road construction detonated Friday outside the police station, killing dozens of people in a blast government officials called an accident. (AP Photo)

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A Sri Lankan opposition supporter shouts slogans during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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** FILE ** A Sri Lankan boy supporting President Mahinda Rajapaksha holds his poster as they rally around the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan opposition supporters burn an effigy of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as policemen block them during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan government supporters carry portraits of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as they rally around the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow the president to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan opposition supporters are blocked by police during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Fireworks light up the sky near the Municipal Council building as the government celebrates the passage of the constitutional amendment in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament voted to eliminate term limits for the president Wednesday, a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)

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A Sri Lankan woman who supports the government sits next to portraits of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as presidential boosters rally around Parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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This is an undated handout photo issued Monday July 19, 2010 by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) of a Horton Plains slender loris, sitting on a forest branch in a mountain forest in central Sri Lanka. Researchers say they photographed the rare primate thought to have been extinct for more than 60 years in a forest in central Sri Lanka. The Zoological Society of London said in in a statement on Monday that a Horton Plains slender loris with wide eyes and short limbs has been caught on camera by ZSL and Sri Lankan researchers after they surveyed forest patches for more than 200 hours, looking for signs of the primate. (AP Photo/Zoological Society of London/Ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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Sri Lankan protesters shout slogans as they clash with police outside the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan police officials scuffle with a protester outside the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan protesters perform a witchcraft ceremony to curse UN officials outside the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and escorted employees out of the office after hundreds of protesters, led by a government minister, laid siege to the U.N. compound in Colombo on Tuesday, and refused to let the workers out until the world body canceled its investigation of alleged abuses committed during Sri Lanka's civil war. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan protesters clash with police out side the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan police officials assist UN staffers to leave the UN office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Police have broken up a blockade of the U.N. office in Sri Lanka's capital and are escorting employees out hours after they were trapped. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)