What is more uncertain for Sri Lanka now is its obligation to rid the island nation of mines by 2028 under the Ottawa Treaty, which it ratified in 2017. Pushparani has experienced the civil war in ...

The BBC's Charles Haviland accompanies a team of female mine clearers in northern Sri Lanka as they remove unexploded weaponry left over from 26 years of war.

Post-war Sri Lanka will need another decade to clear the half million landmines which lie buried under swathes of agricultural and forest land and around villages in the north of the island nation ...

The rebels were able to produce their own mines before their defeat. In 2017, Sri Lanka became a party to the Ottawa Convention of 1997, which bans anti-personnel mines.

Sri Lanka Unleashes Canines on Mines. June 1, 2004. By Nora Boustany. The ceremony's organizers will not worry about honorary doctorates or valedictorian visionaries, but scent and sensibility. ...

My ticket in the observation car from Colombo to Kandy, with comfortable seats and a big picture window at the front of the compartment, cost 11 British pounds, or about $14 for the two-and-a-half ...

What is more uncertain for Sri Lanka now is its obligation to rid the island nation of mines by 2028 under the Ottawa Treaty, which it ratified in 2017. Pushparani has experienced the civil war in ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Thursday approved a law prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel land mines to implement an international ...