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 ...

Recent peace talks failed to bring an end to a 23 year civil war in Sri Lanka that ... comprised of a Sinhalese majority that can be traced back to the sixth century BC and a Tamil minority ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifteen years after Sri ... The Tamil rebels sought to establish an independent homeland, citing systemic marginalization by the Sinhalese-majority government. Even after the war ended in 2009 ...

For Sri Lanka's Minority ... belong to the majority Sinhala population and many Tamils say they have no hope of a better future from those candidates. A 26-year civil war between Tamil insurgents ...

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 ...

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 ...