Colombo (ANTARA News/AFP) - Sri Lanka is setting up new courts to accelerate cases against hundreds of Tamil rebel suspects three years after the end of the island`s bloody ethnic war, a government spokesman said Thursday.

Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said the justice ministry would open three courts near the former war zone in the northeast of Sri Lanka to hear charges against more than 650 detainees. (*)

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