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No, Sri Lanka’s Tamil question has not been resolved. Story by Mario Arulthas ... However, in the Sinhala south, they were long perceived as heroes for winning the war against the LTTE. ...
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — 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.
The gruesome discovery is further evidence of the atrocities committed during the brutal communal war, unleashed by ...
Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka ... A memorial fire is lit to commemorate the Tamil victims of the Sri Lankan civil war, in Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka, on May 18 [Jeevan Ravindran/Al Jazeera] ...
The discovery of the mass grave has reopened old wounds for Sri Lanka’s Tamil community, which suffered the worst violence of ...
PHILIP REEVES: The war in Sri Lanka is entering its bloodiest phase. The Tamil Tigers and tens of thousands of civilians they are holding hostage are trapped in roughly one and a half square miles ...
Concern is growing over the fate of civilians trapped by war on the island of Sri Lanka. U.N. officials say there's evidence that nearly 3,000 of them have been killed in just two months. The ...
Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim—stand in the same trench as their class brothers in Iran, Gaza, throughout the Middle East, including Israel, and internationally.
The Sri Lankan civil war was between the Tamil Eelam of Sri Lanka and the Singhalese people (the Sri Lankan government). It was a civil war that went from July of 1983 to May of 2009.
AT A TAMIL TIGER REBEL BASE, Sri Lanka - Past the paved road lined by minefields, down a sandy track hemmed in by coconut palms and thatch huts, the gate appears, a metal boom bookended by bunkers ...
Item 1 of 5 Singaram Soosaiyamutthu, a 44-year-old labourer who lost both his legs during Sri Lanka’s civil war, digs a spade into farmland he’s rented to plant peanuts in Mullaitivu, Northern ...