The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by ...

Last year, when Sri Lanka held its first provincial elections in the Northern Province since the end of the civil war, turnout was almost 70 percent, the highest of any Sri Lankan province.

The Sri Lankan military, despite their heroic and popular reputation among the majority community in southern Sri Lanka, is generally feared in northern Sri Lanka. Minority Rights Group ...

Sri Lankan government forces are battling with Tamil Tigers in northern Sri Lanka. The fighting has driven some out the northern city of Jaffna. And others, who were gone when the fighting started ...

Things changed after the end of the civil war in 2009. In 2014, an extension opened, linking Sri Lanka’s northern region with the rest of the country. As we travel further north, ...

The elections in Sri Lanka’s north suggest that democracy is slowly taking root on the island. ... Not long ago the Northern Province of Sri Lanka was out of bounds for the rest of the country.

The Northern Provincial Council elections to be held in September 2013 have assumed critical relevance for post-war Sri Lanka. As President Rajapaksa stated: “There were presidential and ...