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Skeletal remains of a girl aged 4–5 were found in Sri Lanka's Chemmani mass grave, linked to the LTTE conflict. The discovery ...
It has been 15 years since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, which pitted government forces against Tamil Tiger separatists.
When the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) arrived in Sri Lanka on July 30, 1987, New Delhi did not expect to be embroiled in a bloody conflict with the ...
Sri Lankan authorities have threatened and detained Tamils commemorating those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today.
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 ...
July 1983, known as ‘Black July’ in Sri Lanka’s history, marks the beginning of the civil war. The LTTE bushwhacked an army convoy and killed 13 soldiers, which triggered a day of riots ...
The skeletal remains of a girl aged between four and five years have been identified among 65 sets of human remains exhumed from a mass grave, which first came into focus during the LTTE conflict in ...
Sri Lanka's civil war, which pitted Sri Lankan government forces against Tamil Tiger separatists, ended 15 years ago but many people are still searching for children or other family members who ...
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.