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 ...

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The Cambridge Union has cancelled a talk with the Sri Lankan politician Namal Rajapaksa, after 22 Tamil organisations signed an open letter condemning the event. The letter expressed the “profound ...

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NEW DELHI — The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat Sunday in their quarter-century struggle against Sri Lanka’s government and offered to lay down their weapons to protect the fighters and civilians who ...

US Ambassador Julie Chung (centre), with ITAK parliamentarians (from left): Kaveendiran Kodeeswaran, Elayathamby Srinath, Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, Thurairasa ...

A group of Sri Lankan Tamils now domiciled in the United Kingdom conducted a protest in London on February 4. Starting ...

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 ...

The elections in Sri Lanka next month come just ahead of a much-anticipated report on the alleged war crimes by prime ministerial candidate and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government during ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former defense secretary and brother of ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa, emerged victorious in Sri Lanka’s presidential election last Sunday. Gotabaya was largely backed by the ...