The final category of deaths are those who died as a result of military action. An MP from the largest Tamil party ... on the final stage of the war to Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The same thing happened in Sri Lanka soon after the ethnic riots in 1983. Tamil civilians lost faith in the GoSL ... Very frequently such risks have led to civilian casualties in war. Such mistakes ...

Both had escaped Sri Lanka’s wantonly vicious civil war, pitting the army, controlled by the majority Sinhalese, against Tamil rebels. She had fled Jaffna with her family, leaping over the ...

The LTTE was an armed group dominant in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka that fought to establish an independent Tamil state for ... Through the war, the state bulldozed and ...

the decades-long civil war of Sri Lanka can arguably be traced back to the British favouritism of the minority Tamil population of British Ceylon. Although there were extensive Tamil settlements ...

After more than 20 years of war, in February 2002 the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam signed a ceasefire agreement. Barriers to travel, dialogue, and understanding ...

The year was marked by prolonged political infighting in Colombo, renewed clashes between Sri Lankan military forces and the armed separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil ... Sri Lanka's war-torn ...

“They’re trampling on our graves with their boots,” said Kavitha, a young Tamil woman ... to the security forces at the end of the war. Sri Lanka must disclose what it did with the thousands ...