Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community’s campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century ...

I REFER to the article by Datuk Seri Nazir Razak “Remembering my father, Tun Razak” (The Star, Jan 14). I wish to correct Nazir’s perception of Sri Lanka’s race history. The Tamils are ...

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. It is a skill he has known ...

According to him, 89 Tamil villages have been renamed with Sinhala names, 367 Hindu temples have been demolished and there are 148 mini and 13 army camps in the war-ravaged Mullaitivu district alone.

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: Letter to Pope ... More than 100,000 displaced persons are currently in the eastern district of ... Most of those detained under the emergency regulations are young Tamil men deemed ...

The culture of Tamil and Sinhalese fisherman lives on to this day in Sri Lanka. In this series we will explore it all from north to south. Subscribe so you don't miss the next episode!

The 13th Amendment provides for the devolution of power to the minority Tamil community which India has been pressing Sri Lanka to implement. This amendment was brought in after the Indo-Sri ...

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.

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 Krishan Francis Saturday 01 June 2024 03:29 BST ...

FILE - Members of the Tamil minority, who fled to West Berlin and demanded political asylum, protest on Aug. 7, 1983, when Sri Lanka’s civil war broke out.