Cameron visits Sri Lanka former war zone

COLOMBO, November 15, 2013 (AFP) - Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron made an historic visit Friday to Sri Lanka's former warzone, stealing the spotlight from a Commonwealth summit after the host, President Mahinda Rajapakse, warned against passing judgement on his country's past. Only hours after the summit opened in Colombo, Cameron flew into the northern Jaffna region where some 100,000 people lost their lives in fighting between Tamil rebels and troops from the majority Sinhalese government.

Several women who lost relatives during the war tried to hurl themselves in front of Cameron's motorcade as he became the first foreign leader to visit Jaffna since the former British colony gained independence in 1948.

Clutching photos of their missing loved ones, they screamed "We Want Justice" before the premier sped away.

He later toured the offices of a Tamil newspaper whose printing presses have been torched several times, including in April this year, and which has lost five staff in attacks since Rajapakse came to power in 2005.

"This is going to make a very lasting impression on me.

That is something you don't forget," Cameron told journalists at the Uthayan ("The Sun") daily where the portraits of slain staff line the walls.

"But it's only when you see it