MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive.

It’s Remembrance Day in Sri Lanka on May 18, the seventh anniversary of the end of a long civil war. But the island’s two biggest ethnic communities will be remembering very different things.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan 30, 2009— -- After nearly three decades of fighting, the Sri Lankan government is convinced Asia's longest-running civil war could soon be over. More than 100,000 ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka commemorated the ninth anniversary of the end of its civil war as a divided nation, with minority Tamils calling for an international investigation into ...

Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009, but ethnonationalism remains a powerful force in the country's politics. Professor Mythri Jegathesan traces the country's present crisis to its recent ...

Concern is growing over the fate of civilians trapped by war on the island of Sri Lanka. U.N. officials say there's evidence that nearly 3,000 of them have been killed in just two months.

Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the cultish leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), died in a blaze of infamy on Sunday. With him died Sri Lanka's devastating 26-year civil war. But while ...

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