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 ...

The road from Colombo, Sri Lanka's graceful seaside capital in the south, ... Sinhalese in the south have begun to visit the Tamil region in the north. Tamils observe the outsiders warily. News.

The plight of Sri Lanka’s Tamil political prisoners is an issue that won’t go away ... For those who still hold high hopes about Sri Lanka’s current president and the road to deeper reform, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka --The Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tiger rebels have reopened a strategic highway that links the northern Tamil heartland with the rest of the country. The A9 Highway was the ...

On the A9 highway that runs from the south to the northern tip of Sri Lanka, we left the last military checkpost, and crossed to the office where the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam processed our ...

Since Sri Lanka’s independence from the British in 1948, the engine of Sinhala politics has been to profit from racial and religious divides: Sinhala against Tamil, Buddhist against Muslim ...

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

Sri Lanka’s occupied territory felt, to a visitor anyway, more like a free society. The Tamils I spoke with soon disabused me of my optimism. “There’s been some breathing space,” a Jaffna ...

Thousands of Tamil civilians streamed out of the controversial refugee camps where they have been detained for months yesterday, after the Sri Lanka government told them they were free to leave ...

Rajapaksa became Sri Lanka’s president first in 2005. In May 2009, his government inflicted a crushing military defeat on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending the 25-year-long ...