The war in Sri Lanka is over, but the military still occupies Tamil areas with a heavy hand. Residents say they still live in fear of security forces, and in fear of speaking out.

As Sri Lanka's military all but vanquished the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last month, the 25-year ethnic conflict finally seemed to be over. But unless President Mahinda Rajapaksa gives ...

Boost for Sri Lanka's ... defender of the nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians displaced by the fighting and held in government detention camps in the area. However, some Tamil expatriates were ...

Sri Lanka to Tamil Tigers: Surrender or die Sri Lanka to Tamil Tigers: Surrender or die ... trapping most Tiger fighters in an area as small as 6.5 square miles on the island’s northern coast. ...

The discovery of the mass grave has reopened old wounds for Sri Lanka’s Tamil community, which suffered the worst violence of ...

Sri Lanka held a memorial for fallen soldiers to mark the fifth anniversary of the defeat of the Tamil Tigers. Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters After the war ended, nearly 300,000 Tamils who had been ...

A Sri Lankan army trooper patrols the island’s northern town of Jaffna on Sept. 18, 2011. The government has tried to rebrand its troops as a benevolent force for rebuilding and development.

Sri Lanka: Tamil People’s Council calls rally to stir up ... an international investigation into “the disappeared,” stop the militarisation of Tamil areas and resettle all those displaced ...

Sri Lanka is geographically ... healthcare, banking, and select areas of manufacturing. Sri Lanka's ... which was reluctant after 2009 due to human rights concerns for the Tamil population in Sri ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — 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.

Sri Lankan military officers march during military parade rehearsals in preparation for the celebration of the third anniversary of the end of the civil war and the defeat of the separatist Tamil ...

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 ...