Singaram Soosaimuthu, a 45-year-old former rebel fighter, chats with friends as he returns from the sea after fishing overnight, in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka, May 6, 2023. The former Tamil fighter ...

JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru Lagoon in Mullaitivu district, there stands a statue ...

Sri Lanka's wild elephant population has dwindled over the last century from around 15,000 to just 4,000. The jungles of Mullaitivu were at the heart of the Tamil Tiger insurgency.

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 ...

Sri Lanka media groups condemned members of the army who attacked a journalist while covering a Tamil tribute in Mullaitivu. This statement was originally published on ifj.org on 2 December 2021..

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — 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.

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — 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.

Ethnic Tamil girls attend a sewing class in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka, May 8, 2024. Sri Lanka’s Tamil people still live in the shadow of defeat in the civil war that tore the country apart until it ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Tamil people still live in the shadow of defeat in the civil war that tore the country apart until it ended 15 years ago. Some parents have given up ...