The government of Sri Lanka announced plans this week to conduct a nationwide census to tally “human and property damages” inflicted during the nation’s three decades of civil war. “The death toll of ...
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive.
Sri Lankan Tamil civil war survivors perform rituals in memory of their deceased family members on a small strip of land where civilians were trapped during the last stages of the war in Mullivaikkal, ...
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — 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. Some parents have given up hope of ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Christian clergy from Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil-majority north have asked the U.N. Human Rights Council to push for an independent international inquiry into alleged ...
Sri Lankan ethic Tamil children walk past debris of burnt vehicles devastated allegedly by aerial bombing in the Tamil Tiger controlled no fire zone in Mullivaaykaal, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 5, 2009.