From the left, ITAK leader S. Sritharan, Tamil Progressive Alliance leader Mano Ganeshan, ITAK secretary Mavai Senathirajah and Provincial Council member S. Sivamohan at the ITAK 2024 Mayday event in ...

This Sunday, May 18, marks 16 years since the Sri Lankan government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending an armed conflict that had raged for 26 years. But while the fighting ...

Thousands of people protested in Colombo on Monday against the assassination last week of Tamil parliamentarian Nadaraja Raviraj. The demonstration drew a cross-section of people—Sinhala, Tamil and ...

The question of resolving the problem through negotiations is a joke -- a cruel joke! It is like a gang of robbers invading someone else’s home to steal things and saying: Let us resolve this matter ...

The plight of Sri Lanka’s Tamil political prisoners is an issue that won’t go away – because the Sri Lankan government, a coalition led by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil ...

But documents released to Global News under the Access to Information Act show Anandasangaree has handed Tamil Tigers-related decisions to his deputy minister, Tricia Geddes, and a second person whose ...

Just over two months ago, the Tamils went to the polls for Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council elections with defiance, yet with a cautious sense of festivity. Military harassment of voters and ...

It has been almost 12 years since the civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end after the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Since 2009, there has been a concerted effort to hold ...

CHAVAKACHCHERI, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Black flags draped in mourning, shops shut in protest, thousands of Tamils gathered in Sri Lanka's far north on Wednesday to pay their last respects to the second ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Wednesday deported a MP it views as sympathetic to the Tamil Tiger separatists, the latest foreign official it has sent out of the country at the end of a 25-year war.