Jeevarani was one of thousands of Tamils who gathered on May 18 to mark 16 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war in Mullivaikkal, the site of the final battle between the ...

He said the majority Sinhalese governments had not barred the leftist JVP, ... Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist war cost the lives of more than 100,000 people, according to United Nations estimates.

From the Sri Lankan flag, which overtly renders Tamils as subservient to the island’s Sinhala majority, to state-sponsored settlements in Tamil-majority provinces and the normalization of ...

Sri Lankans crowded polling stations Tuesday to choose between two Sinhalese war heroes — the president and his former army chief — in an election that could be decided by minority Tamils, who ...

The International Truth and Justice Project – Sri Lanka (ITJP) releases a new report today. The report, “A Still Unfinished War: Sri Lanka’s Survivors of Torture and Sexual Violence 2009 ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's government said Monday it would rebuild a memorial to Tamil civilians killed in the country's civil war that was demolished at the weekend.

R. Sampanthan, the face of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority and its struggle post-civil war, dies at 91 Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the ...

Sri Lankan protesters lit flames and offered prayers Wednesday remembering thousands — including ethnic Tamil civilians — killed in the final stages of the country’s decadeslong civil war.

The war had neatly cleaved Sri Lanka along confessional lines, between Sinhalese Buddhists and the multi-faith Tamils. In the south, the eggshell domes of Buddhist shrines seem to be the only ...

The roadblocks have been dismantled, the sandbags removed, and Sri Lanka is again a palm-fringed tourist paradise, the government says. But for ethnic Tamils living in the former war zone, it is ...

Jeevarani was one of thousands of Tamils who gathered on May 18 to mark 16 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war in Mullivaikkal, the site of the final battle between the ...