In 2001, the statue’s procession was extended to southern Anuradhapura, Galle, and Colombo dioceses as the civil war temporarily halted following a ceasefire agreement. Ahead of the centenary ...

Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka), April 06, 2025(ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Guard of Honour by Sri Lankan Air Force in Anuradhapura ON April 6. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan ...

Referred to as the teardrop of India, Sri Lanka sits just off the southeast coast in the Indian Ocean. Scars of a bitter civil war are fading, and an island nation rich with resources and ripe for ...

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 threatened and detained Tamils commemorating those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today. Sri Lanka: Crackdown Over Civil ...

For years during Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war, services ceased between the two cities which so symbolised the division between Tamils and Sinhalese, Hindu and Buddhist, north (or north-east ...

Last weekend, Tamils in Sri Lanka gathered to commemorate those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, which lasted from 1983 to 2009. As they have for the last 16 years, they also ...

The U.N. reported that, during the final stages of the war, 40,000 to 70,000 Tamil civilians were killed by the Sri Lankan government — figures that the Sri Lankan government continues to deny. To put ...

Twin Cities writer V.V. Ganeshananthan didn’t expect her second novel to take so long to write. But after almost two decades “Brotherless Night,” a tale set against the Sri Lankan civil war ...

UK Sanctions Former Sri Lankan Commanders Over Civil War Abuses LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on three former senior Sri Lankan military commanders and one former Tamil ...