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 ...

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, ...

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.

Sri Lankan authorities have detained nine ethnic Tamils under the country's abusive counterterrorism law for commemorating those who died in the 1983-2009 civil war.

The brutal end of Sri Lanka's civil war, the huge loss of civilian life during the conflict and the disappearances of many of those who surrendered, still has a profound effect on the former women ...

Commemorating Tamil victims of Sri Lanka’s civil war has remained a sensitive issue. A solidarity remembrance event held in May 2023 in Colombo was disrupted by a Sinhala nationalist group.

Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community’s campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century ...

At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. It is a skill he has known ...

No, Sri Lanka’s Tamil question has not been resolved. The nationwide electoral success of the anti-establishment NPP does not mean Tamil nationalism is on the decline.