Jeevarani was one of thousands of Tamils who gathered on May 18 to mark 16 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil ...

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Ethnic Tamils ... the war. But residents say the army is taking over large swaths of private land to build camps and even businesses such as hotels, and bringing in Sinhalese ...

The war may have drawn to a close ... incidents of linguistic discrimination Tamils have faced for decades in Sri Lanka. Coded in official policy, the Sinhala Only Act, passed into law in 1956 ...

Indian Tamil ... Sri Lanka and to demand an international probe into alleged wartime abuses there. A U.N. investigation into the final months of the war indicated that the ethnic Sinhalese ...

Sri Lankan protesters have lit flames and offered prayers remembering thousands – including ethnic Tamil civilians – killed in the final stages of the country’s decades-long civil war.

In Sri Lanka ... the civil war with the Tamil Tigers that lasted a quarter of a century, reconciliation appears elusive. Elected in 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, seen by the Sinhalese ...

The hunger strike was called after the demolition of the monument A monument in Sri Lanka to commemorate the tens of thousands of Tamils who died in the civil war is to be rebuilt following a ...

This Sunday, May 18, marks 16 years since the Sri Lankan government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ...

Thousands of Tamils killed in Sri Lanka’s decades ... that the country’s majority Sinhalese were willing to support reconciliation after decades of ethnic war. “This gives us a lot of ...

At the site of a bloody battlefield that marked the end of Sri ... ethnically Sinhalese, with the Tamil community making up about 11% of the population. The separatist civil war broke out in ...

Sri Lanka’s ... as well as Tamils in neighbouring India. Minority Tamils have accused the Sinhalese-majority government of denying them the right to remember their war dead.

In the summer of 1983, ethnic violence swept the island nation of Sri Lanka ... during the war and began a decline in the economy which reduced the Sinhala state to a beggar nation. Black July also ...