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 ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka (AP) — At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Singaram Soosaimuthu fishes every day with his son, casting nets and reeling them in. It ...

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 ...

Last month, in the runup to the 12th anniversary of the Mullaitivu massacre, the Association of Relatives of the Disappeared in the Sri Lankan Civil War organized roadside protests in the Vavuniya ...

The civil war pitted the Tamil militant group, the LTTE (often called the Tamil Tigers), against the Sri Lankan government forces. The conflict was essentially an ethno-political struggle that had its ...

The war in Sri Lanka was not a fair “war.” In my opinion, it was the wiping out of a whole ethnic group. I think the Sri Lankan government was wrong for killing millions of innocent Tamil people just ...

Last month marked the eleventh anniversary of the bloody end of Sri Lanka’s nearly 30-year war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), on May 18, 2009, ordered by the ...

Sometime in October of 2012, I found myself fortuitously sitting in the Indian Embassy in Beijing. The then-ambassador to China, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar asked me about how I liked living in Singapore; ...

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 still ...

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 ...