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KOSLANDA, Sri Lanka (AP) — A mudslide triggered by monsoon rain buried scores of workers’ houses at a tea plantation in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, raising fears that hundreds may have ...
We see a different kind of relationship between the two emerge after 1803, when the Treaty of Amiens made Sri Lanka a Crown Colony of the British.
To restate the obvious, Sri Lanka isn’t North Korea. The call for an immediate ICC referral on Sri Lanka is disingenuous and misleading.
14 October 2020 The entire North and East of Sri Lanka was paralysed by a mass protest campaign (hartal) on September 28, against the right-wing government of President Gotabhaya Rajapakse.
UNHCR is deeply concerned over the safety of thousands of families fleeing fierce fighting in the north of Sri Lanka as the conflict between government forces and the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam ...
Pope Francis traveled to the jungles of war-torn northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday for a deeply symbolic show of solidarity with the victims of the country’s 25-year civil war and to urge Sri ...
The 39-page report, “‘If We Raise Our Voice They Arrest Us’: Sri Lanka’s Proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” documents abusive security force surveillance and intimidation of ...
The Sri Lankan government’s ongoing abuses are undermining the purported goals of its newly proposed truth and reconciliation commission. Victims of past violations, their families, and human ...
Pope Francis traveled to the jungles of war-torn northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday to show solidarity with the victims of the country's 25-year civil war and urge forgiveness and reconciliation "for ...