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Sri Lanka’s ‘Black July’ not over yet, Christian leaders say In July 1983, riots broke out across the country after Tamil Tiger rebels (from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan or LTTE) killed 13 Sri Lankan soldiers, setting off a civil war that end... [1]
COLOMBO — Just three years after being voted out in a presidential election in Sri Lanka, strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa is back at the center of power, appointed prime minister by the man who defeated him. [2]
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil leaders on Sunday asked the top UN human rights official to help determine the fate of more than 4,000 civilians reported missing in the country’s long civil war amid the government’s assertion that most o... [3]
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan human rights activists said on Wednesday they have asked a United Nations official to inquire about the recent killing of unarmed protesters, anti-Muslim violence and alleged army land grabs from victims of the country’s civil wa... [4]
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka, under heavy pressure to end human rights abuses four years after the end of a brutal civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels, said on Tuesday it faced a new threat of terrorism and Muslim extremism. [5]
MULLIVAIKKAL, Sri Lanka — Survivors of Sri Lanka’s civil war complained on Tuesday to the United Nations’ human rights chief about missing relatives, military land grabs and a life without basic facilities more than four years after the end of the qu... [6]
For the second time in as many years, the UN’s top human rights body approved a US-backed resolution on Thursday calling on Sri Lanka to more thoroughly investigate alleged war crimes committed by both sides during the country’s quarter-century civil... [7]
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s former strongman leader on Tuesday blamed unnamed conspirators for carrying out anti-Muslim attacks during his tenure as he tries to woo estranged minority communities in his comeback bid in next month’s parliamentary elections.... [8]
Sri Lanka’s ‘Black July’ not over yet, Christian leaders say In July 1983, riots broke out across the country after Tamil Tiger rebels (from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan or LTTE) killed 13 Sri Lankan soldiers, setting off a civil war that end
COLOMBO — Just three years after being voted out in a presidential election in Sri Lanka, strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa is back at the center of power, appointed prime minister by the man who defeated him.
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil leaders on Sunday asked the top UN human rights official to help determine the fate of more than 4,000 civilians reported missing in the country’s long civil war amid the government’s assertion that most o
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan human rights activists said on Wednesday they have asked a United Nations official to inquire about the recent killing of unarmed protesters, anti-Muslim violence and alleged army land grabs from victims of the country’s civil wa
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka, under heavy pressure to end human rights abuses four years after the end of a brutal civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels, said on Tuesday it faced a new threat of terrorism and Muslim extremism.
MULLIVAIKKAL, Sri Lanka — Survivors of Sri Lanka’s civil war complained on Tuesday to the United Nations’ human rights chief about missing relatives, military land grabs and a life without basic facilities more than four years after the end of the qu
For the second time in as many years, the UN’s top human rights body approved a US-backed resolution on Thursday calling on Sri Lanka to more thoroughly investigate alleged war crimes committed by both sides during the country’s quarter-century civil
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s former strongman leader on Tuesday blamed unnamed conspirators for carrying out anti-Muslim attacks during his tenure as he tries to woo estranged minority communities in his comeback bid in next month’s parliamentary elections.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — With a bloody civil war over and a cautious peace at hand, a group of hardline Buddhist monks is rallying Sri Lankans against what they say is a pernicious threat: Muslims.