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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12203019" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/hgA0D.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit against Sri Lanka's president  over killings allegedly carried out by his forces during the country's  civil war. The Obama administration argued he was immune from  litigation.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled  Wednesday that she did "not take this step lightly" and was shocked by  allegations of human rights abuses in the suit. She said her ruling was  no reflection on the merits of the case, but she is required to dismiss  the suit against President Mahinda Rajapaksa because the State  Department says he has immunity as a head of state.The suit was  brought by relatives of Tamil Tiger rebels and a humanitarian worker who  was assisting them. They claim all were killed by government security  forces under Rajapaksa's control.<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Associated_Press_logo_2012.svg/30px-Associated_Press_logo_2012.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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