In Chemmani, northern Sri Lanka, a mass grave uncovered earlier this year is forcing a nation to confront the darkest ...

Many of the gravesites that pockmark the north and east of the country are believed to contain the victims of atrocities ...

AS DARK CLOUDS of economic crisis, political chaos and mass protest loomed over Sri Lanka a year ago, optimists saw one silver lining. So incompetent and corrupt was the soon-to-collapse government of ...

The death toll of Cyclone Ditwah is over 300 and counting. Hundreds more have gone missing. Tens of thousands have been ...

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted yet another resolution on accountability for mass atrocities committed in Sri Lanka. It was the latest in a long series of measures ...

Veramuththu Singamuththu embodies both the pain caused by Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war and the opportunities that the war’s end has slowly started to bring. In 2008, the onetime fisherman, along with ...

Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an ...

Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka – On a beach in northeastern Sri Lanka, Krishnan Anjan Jeevarani laid out some of her family’s favourite food items on a banana leaf. She placed a samosa, lollipops and a large ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - With a quarter-century civil war in the history books, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will now put to the test his theory of using a military victory over terrorism as the ...

The country’s president said the nationwide flooding after the storm hit last week was the most challenging natural disaster ...

Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vijitha Herath recently revealed in parliament that 59 Sri Lankans serving in the Russian Army have been killed on the Ukrainian battlefield as of January 20, ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president will appoint a home-grown committee to probe a U.S. State Department report of possible war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka's 25-year war against the Tamil ...