The defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May brought an end to Sri Lanka’s civil war. But the conflict also shed light on a bitter geopolitical struggle taking place against the backdrop ...
A group of 43 businessmen from Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital city, were shocked to see the devastation when they landed in Jaffna in early July. Returning after three decades, they remembered this palm ...
NEW DELHI — Sri Lanka’s victory this week after a 25-year battle against the Tamil Tiger rebels represents a rare success story for governments fighting insurgencies. Even as leaders in Colombo, the ...
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA — The president declared victory Saturday in Sri Lanka’s quarter-century civil war with the Tamil Tigers rebels. But the group’s top leaders remained at large as troops and the ...
With the discussion on Sri Lanka and the UNHRC resurfacing this year, the singularity of Geneva 2009 and Sri Lanka’s decisive victory has been noted in Parliament by the Leader of the Opposition.
In early 2009, Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa faced an opportunity, and possibly a moral quandary. Since 1976, the country's Sinhalese majority had weathered a brutal campaign at the hands of ...
Tens of thousands of civilians died amid Sri Lanka’s defeat of separatists in 2009. Some Israeli military strategists see it as a campaign to be emulated. For many people around the world, the memory ...
Sri Lanka Cricket stated that it has always been there to help Pakistan, and now it's their turn to return the favour.
Having endured a bloody civil war from 1983 until 2009, Sri Lanka is now at peace and developing rapidly. That’s good news for the country as a whole, but the island nation’s leopards are under threat ...