This Sunday, May 18, marks 16 years since the Sri Lankan government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending an armed conflict that had raged for 26 years. But while the ...

Sri Lankan officials presented her with a sewing machine. It was 2011, and the woman had just been released from a rehabilitation camp for former Tamil Tiger fighters. She had signed up as a ...

No, Sri Lanka’s Tamil question has not been resolved. Story by Mario Arulthas • 1w “They’re trampling on our graves with their boots,” said Kavitha, a young Tamil woman, ...

Senevirathnam Wasanayagi 63, relative of a detained Tamil Tiger rebel suspect cries as she holds up a photo of her son during a protest outside the main prison on May 29, 2012 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka honours Tamil war-dead after 13 years. By. AFP. Published. May 18, 2022. Anti-government demonstrators gather in remembrance of the thousands of minority Tamil civilians killed in the ...

The video was shot towards the end of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war, which ended in 2009, between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group, known as the Tamil Tigers.

Still, the new government has also insisted that it will not allow dead Tamil Tiger rebels to be memorialized. According to a United Nations report some 40,000 civilians may have been killed in ...

Sri Lanka breaks up Tamil remembrance of war dead Tamil women at a protest in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, with photos of family members who disappeared during the civil war, in 2013.

Commemorations for Tamil Tiger rebels killed in Sri Lanka's decades-long civil war were banned on Friday after court petitions by the government of strongman President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Sri ...

Commemorations for Tamil Tiger rebels killed in Sri Lanka's decades-long civil war were banned on Friday after court petitions by the government of strongman President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.