Showing the strain of nearly three years of waiting for the cartoonist and journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, his wife and son have been keeping a vigil outside the UN compound in the commercial capital, Colombo.

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The father waited for days, watching soldiers pull out bodies, waiting to see if his son was among the dead.

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His father, Anzhor Tsarnaev, said last week that his elder son stayed with him while waiting for the passport to be processed.

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While waiting for the architect to arrive with his digital presentation, I thought about my son who had dropped by the house earlier in the afternoon to tell me about his new Google TV and NetFlix.

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Poking at my laptop, I noticed my two kids -- my 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son -- patiently waiting for Daddy to get done with the television so they could get on with the cartoon hour.

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Jan Robinson, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, is still waiting for the return of organs taken from her four-and-a-half-month-old son Michael who died at Alder Hey in May 1989, is a member of the commission.

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