Both had escaped Sri Lanka’s wantonly vicious civil war, pitting the army, controlled by the majority Sinhalese, against Tamil rebels. She had fled Jaffna with her family, leaping over the ...

Since the war ... hardcore Sinhalese nationality that is engraved in the politics of Sri Lanka and the ethnic divide that makes it difficult for politicians to work in favour of the Tamils.

(CNN)-- The Tamil Tigers have been invited by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to lay down their arms after government forces retook the city of Kilinochchi Friday, once the center of power ...

Since its completion in May 2005, LANKA-The Other Side of War and Peace has been screened extensively in Sri Lanka and internationally. A 56-minute documentary Sinhala, Tamil, and English, with ...

At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka ... Sinhalese, with the Tamil community making up about 11% of the population. The separatist civil war broke out in 1983 ...