The decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka may finally be over. The government has declared victory over the rebel Tamil Tigers — and the Tigers have conceded defeat. Rebecca Roberts talks to U.N ...

Sri Lankan government claims it is close to defeating the Tamil Tiger rebels. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan 30, 2009— -- After nearly three decades of fighting, the Sri Lankan government is ...

A leaked document reveals the United Nations believes there is credible evidence that war crimes were committed in Sri Lanka’s civil war. Already the government of Sri Lanka has put up its ...

V.V. Ganeshananthan's new novel, Brotherless Night, dives into the Sri Lankan Civil War through the story of ... lasting impact of colonization in Sri Lanka and the importance of writing from ...

MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — For 15 years, Rasalingam Thilakawathi has been trying to find out what happened to her daughter at the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war. Or if she might still be alive.

But the unfolding crisis in Sri Lanka was also manufactured by government mismanagement, corruption, and the consolidation of power in the decade following the end of the civil war in 2009 ...

(Geneva) – Sri Lankan authorities have threatened and detained Tamils commemorating those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war ... police in Sri Lanka’s north and east ...

Yet the particular horrors of its civil war, and the terrible scars it has left on Sri Lanka’s divided society, cannot easily be glossed over. This was underlined last month in a report by local ...

July 1983, known as ‘Black July’ in Sri Lanka’s history, marks the beginning of the civil war. The LTTE bushwhacked an army convoy and killed 13 soldiers, which triggered a day of riots ...

With him died Sri Lanka's devastating 26-year civil war. But while Sri Lankans celebrate in the streets, a heavy challenge awaits their government. It's one thing to win a war. It's a very ...

Ethnic Tamils commemorated the 15th anniversary of the bloody end to Sri Lanka's civil war, lighting lamps and offering flowers at the site where thousands of people are said to have been killed ...