In 2001, the statue’s procession was extended to southern Anuradhapura, Galle, and Colombo dioceses as the civil war temporarily halted following a ceasefire agreement. Ahead of the centenary ...

For years during Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war, services ceased between the two cities which so symbolised the division between Tamils and Sinhalese, Hindu and Buddhist, north (or north-east ...

Sri Lankan Violence Spills From Civil War Into the Voting Booth. By Pamela Constable. October 14, 2000 at 8:00 p.m. EDT ...

Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the cultish leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), died in a blaze of infamy on Sunday. With him died Sri Lanka's devastating 26-year civil war. But while ...

The U.N. reported that, during the final stages of the war, 40,000 to 70,000 Tamil civilians were killed by the Sri Lankan government — figures that the Sri Lankan government continues to deny. To put ...

Krishnapillai Sothilakshmi’s husband, Senthivel, was forcibly disappeared in 2008 during the Sri Lankan civil war. She hopes the new government will help her find out what happened to him ...

Sri Lankan authorities have threatened and detained Tamils commemorating those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today. Sri Lanka: Crackdown Over Civil ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on three former senior Sri Lankan military commanders and one former Tamil Tiger rebel commander over human rights violations during a civil ...