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 ...
Across Sri Lanka, anger is exploding as prices for food and fuel explode out of reach for the masses. Workers, youth and the rural poor are uniting across ethnic and religious lines in mass protests ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka's government has pledged to quickly process hundreds of ethnic Tamils who have been detained without charges for years on suspicion of links to former Tamil Tiger rebels ...
Contrary to Herath’s claims of government progress, the recent UNHRC report documents widespread human rights violations ...
Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagendran on Sunday alleged that Katchatheevu was handed over to Sri Lanka during the tenure ...
The recent arrests of returning refugees under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) voluntary repatriation by state agencies in Sri Lanka on the ground that they fled the island ...
Sri Lanka's wildlife agency refuted widely shared online claims that suggested a dead sea cow has recently washed ashore on the island nation's western coast. The pictures in the misleading posts ...
Hundreds of Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka, many of whom have spent nearly two decades in jail without seeing the inside of a courtroom, have initiated a hunger strike to demand their immediate release.
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 ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military said on Tuesday Tamil Tiger rebel leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's body had been found, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged Tamils to join in rebuilding a ...
The resolution has been widely panned by observers as the weakest on Sri Lanka since such measures on accountability were ...
The NPP government seems willing to act against drug traffickers and manufacturers who have ties with politicians.