Last week, when prominent political parties and groups representing Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking ethnic minorities launched a ...

Sri Lanka's minority parties unite to demand a new Constitution, provincial elections, and solutions to land conflicts.

For the first time ever, an event held by mostly Sinhalese also memorialized Tamil victims of the decades-long civil war. A Christian nun sings hymns as activists observe a minute silence in ...

From the Victoria Bridge in Sri Lanka, the French journalist René Dumont watched bodies flow down the Kelani River, together with hundreds of silent, unmoving people. “The police, who had killed them, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Sri Lankan government's campaign to stave off any U.N. call to investigate its wartime conduct is hampering efforts to heal long-simmering ethnic tensions, according to ...

In May 2009, the long running civil war in Sri Lanka ended with the defeat of ethnic Tamil insurgents by the Sinhalese dominated Sri Lankan armed forces. The manner of this defeat was a mass atrocity ...

Much controversy surrounds the use of the flags associated with the Sri Lankan people, mainly because they are loaded with ethnic symbolism in a country recovering from a generation-long civil war ...

Sri Lankan security forces continue to impose abduction and torture on Tamil civilians, a Wednesday report from the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) revealed. The report analyzed the ...

Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crises since winning independence from Britain in 1948. Inflation is at an all-time high and protests are spreading around the country. Most public anger is ...