The war in Sri Lanka is over, but the military still occupies Tamil areas with a heavy hand. Residents say they still live in fear of security forces, and in fear of speaking out.

Sri Lankan Navy arrested four Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu's Rameswaram on charges of crossing the International Maritime ...

As Sri Lanka's military all but vanquished the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last month, the 25-year ethnic conflict finally seemed to be over. But unless President Mahinda Rajapaksa gives ...

But it is not just the “disappeared” that are a problem for the Tamil residents of Sri Lanka’s former ... particularly the 90,000 Sri Lankan war widows living in areas with a large ...

{Tamil Tigers admit defeat at hands of Sri Lankan military } {The beaten and battered rebel group, reportedly trapped in a 300-square-yard area, has offered to lay down arms. The military, however ...

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.

The discovery of the mass grave has reopened old wounds for Sri Lanka’s Tamil community, which suffered the worst violence of ...

Mullaitivu, the poorest Going by Sri Lanka’s national poverty line of about $1.50 per day (Purchasing Power Parity in 2005), the poverty headcount rates of Mullaitivu, Mannar and Kilinochchi are ...

Sri Lanka's military has said Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's body had been found, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged Tamils to join in rebuilding a nation split by a 25-year ...

Sri Lanka’s government had promised the United Nations and countries like India and the United States that they would share power with the Tamil-majority areas to resolve the causes that led to ...

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 ...