Yet, even 17 years after LTTE defeat there are attempts to continue to portray LTTE as the sole representative of the Tamil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka – On a beach in northeastern Sri Lanka, Krishnan Anjan Jeevarani laid out some of her family’s favourite ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island ...

A rally near the United Nations Headquarters to protest Sri Lanka’s military offensive against the Tamil Tigers and civilian casualties, New York, April 17, 2009 (AP photo by Seth Wenig). Click to ...

In the past 30 years, some 60,000 to 100,000 Sri Lankans have disappeared, Amnesty International reports. Ethnic and religious tensions have always been a part of Sri Lanka's history, which includes a ...

BOTH Sri Lanka’s ethnic Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority think of themselves as original, indigenous inhabitants of the island—an important prop to their political claims and counterclaims.

CDozens of Sri Lankan Tamils who were born in India and stayed in rehabilitation camps for over three decades have applied for citizenship. After verification of documents, their applications would be ...