Northern Province
Britishnoun
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Wigneswaran, chief minister for Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and a former Supreme Court judge, sent a letter to the AP on Friday confirming similar rights abuses he has heard from Tamils in his northern constituency.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2017
The men were sentenced by the High Court in Jaffna, the capital of Northern Province.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2015
It said that 19 cases were before the courts in Northern Province and 20 in Eastern Province as of May 2015, with most of the victims being children.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2015
Makeni, the largest city in the country’s Northern Province, is in one of the newly quarantined districts, and foreign health care workers are particularly worried about a surge in infections there.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2014
The other tradition places the knowledge of the place of burial in the hands of the Roman Catholic bishops of the Northern Province.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See by Joseph E. Bygate
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