Francis writes for the Associated Press. AMBEPUSSA, SRI LANKA — Vinojan’s boyhood ended when Sri Lanka’s civil war reignited. He was 15, he says, when he joined the separatist Tamil Tigers ...

Sri Lanka pardons soldier who killed Tamil civilians. Staff Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake was to be hanged for murdering eight members of the Tamil minority in 2000.

Civilians are the casualties in Sri Lanka's brutal civil war. In a rare report from inside former rebel-held areas, SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda meets fleeing refugees and ex-fighters ...

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 alive.

Last weekend, Tamils in Sri Lanka gathered to commemorate those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, which lasted from 1983 to 2009. As they have for the last 16 years, they also ...

I n a gripping narrative that unearths the harsh realities of Sri Lanka's civil war, Kagusthan Ariaratnam, a former child soldier of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) turned intelligence ...

Colombo (AsiaNews) – For the first time since the end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war, which pitted the country’s military against the Tamil Tigers, ordinary people were able to pay homage ...

Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009, but ethnonationalism remains a powerful force in the country's politics. Professor Mythri Jegathesan traces the country's present crisis to its recent ...

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. The last evidence she has is a photo from a newspaper ...

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 ...