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(CNN)-- The Tamil Tigers have been invited by Sri Lankan President Mahinda ... including devolution of power to the provinces and official status for the Tamil language. But fighting continued.

Stressing the importance of a sound language policy for ethnic ... rejected 13A based on the India-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) went to war with ...

lombo (Sri Lanka) April 05, 2025 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with Tamil Leaders from Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka, in Colombo on April 05. ‘This is not the act ...

COLOMBO: Major towns in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged northern and eastern provinces today observed a complete shutdown after the Tamil and Muslim political parties staged a protest demanding the ...

Nearly 16 years after Sri Lanka's civil war, former female fighters from the country's northern provinces still have ... of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), popularly known as the ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka has scrapped its national anthem's minority Tamil language version, a move that may add to the country's ethnic tensions after a bloody decades-long civil war.

The LTTE was an armed group dominant in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka that fought to establish an independent Tamil state for nearly three decades, until its definitive defeat ...

In identical letters to Dr. Singh and Ms. Gandhi, Mr. Karunanidhi said many more such tactics were being employed by the Sri Lankan government. “Tamils in Sri Lanka are living in an oppressive ...

“We demand that Malaiyaha Tamil people be accepted as free and equal Sri Lankan citizens,” said Shalini Manori, a 54-year-old ...

Amid the economic and political turmoil in Sri ... Tamil in Sri Lanka. But it is difficult to live and run a day-to-day life for them too," Ahilan told DW. Sri Lanka's northern and eastern ...

Manel stopped speaking Tamil altogether and only restarted learning the language nearly 40 years later. In Sri Lanka, opening a school to teach Tamil as a second language to adults is virtually ...