The mass graves at Chemmani cemetery in Jaffna reveal hundreds of human remains, reopening the painful wounds of Sri Lanka's ...

Ahead of the visit of President Maithiripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to Jaffna today, Tamil nationalists staged a symbolic protest on Wednesday. Sirisena and Wickremesinghe ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The "Queen of Jaffna," a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil's northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a bloody civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs back ...

A military operation targeting "Uthayan" appeared to be a response to the Tamil-language daily's publication of a supplement consisting of poems and accounts by survivors of the Sri Lankan army's ...

Last Thursday, Sri Lankan police murdered Jaffna University arts faculty students Pawnraj Sulakshan and Nadarasa Gajan as they rode a motorcycle in Jaffna. The police killing came amid rapidly ...

Trichy: The Sri Lankan Navy detained 35 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu and other states in the early hours of Monday for ...

LONDON — – The war-ravaged city of Jaffna is the ultimate symbol of the separate state for which Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have been fighting since 1983. Fierce battles between the Liberation ...

The National People’s Power (NPP) known in Sinhala as Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) and Theseeya Makkal Sakthi (TMS) in Tamil has recorded a historic victory in the Parliamentary elections held on 14 ...

Lawrence Valin’s feature directorial debut “Little Jaffna” is set to make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The first clip has been unveiled from the film. The film, which Valin also ...

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 August CPJ press release: SRI LANKA: Tamil newspaper editor killed in Jaffna New York, August 21, 2006 – A Tamil newspaper editor and former member of parliament was ...