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Amid Abuse and Fear, Tamils Continue to Flee Sri Lanka
The offices of a Tamil newspaper in northern Sri Lanka were attacked on Saturday morning, the latest in a string of outrages on the press and a fresh reminder of...
Oh, Good: Face-Sized Spiders Discovered in Sri Lanka
The words "spider" and "face-sized" should probably never be used in a sentence together.
Peer Pressure: Will Another U.N. Resolution Change Sri Lanka?
A draft U.S. resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council aims to pressure Sri Lanka to implement recommendations made by the postwar Lessons Learnt and...
32 Burma Nationals Rescued at Sea off Sri Lanka
(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — Sri Lanka's navy says it has rescued 32 Burma nationals whose wooden vessel began sinking while making a perilous journey to Australia. A...
Sri Lanka’s Elephant Shortage
In Sri Lanka, elephants perform an important role in a range of traditional religious ceremonies. But dwindling numbers of pachyderms in captivity have led to a...
Three Years After War’s End, Sri Lanka is Only Beginning to Make Peace
When war returned to the Vanni, the vast swath of land in Sri Lanka’s north, it came quickly and left just as fast. For over three decades as Tamil militants...
U.N. Sri Lanka Vote Redefines India’s Regional Role
In the early months of 2009 when Sri Lanka’s war was reaching its final crescendo, frantic calls were made to Colombo by Sri Lankan diplomats at the United...
Why Sri Lanka Remains Defiant Against New Allegations of War Crimes
“They didn’t believe that anyone in the international community was willing to stop them, and they were right.” That is the lucid explanation offered by John...
Why We Should Be Talking About Sri Lanka
As forty-seven countries meet in Geneva to take stock of the world’s human rights performance, Sri Lanka finds itself in the dock, haunted by the legacy of a...
The Real Lessons of Sri Lanka's Long War: A Changing Global Order and the End of Human Rights
The grandly named “Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission” submitted its final report to Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday. The document is...
In Sri Lanka, the Ballot Takes Over where the Bullet Ruled
It was an election of little if any practical importance, but huge symbolic value. Twenty local administrative bodies in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged north went to...
Casualties of War: Helping Sri Lanka's Female Soldiers
Right through our one hour interview, she kept twitching her fingers nervously. A blue handkerchief, neatly folded when we sat down, was a crushed mess by the...
More than 1 Million Cut Off in Sri Lanka's Deluge
When the rains began on Dec. 26 along the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, they brought with them a foreboding sense of unease. The day after Christmas still gives...
Sri Lanka's 'Highway of Death' Becomes Tourist Hot Spot
Elephantpass, a narrow causeway linking the northern Jaffna Peninsula with the rest of Sri Lanka, was the site of many bloody battles during the island's...
How China and India Displaced the West in Sri Lanka
As a Sri Lankan military offensive destroyed the last remnants of the Tamil Tiger separatist insurgency in May of last year to end a quarter century of bloody...
Sri Lanka's Military Polishes Its Image — on Reality TV
During the last years of Sri Lanka's battle against the Tamil Tigers, the military hierarchy used to receive a regular — if somewhat unusual — request: members...
Business Returns to Sri Lanka's Former War Zone
Veramuththu Singamuththu embodies both the pain caused by Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war and the opportunities that the war's end has slowly started to bring...
Sri Lanka and the U.N. in a Confrontation
An already testy relationship between the United Nations and the Sri Lankan government came under greater strain this week after a firebrand government...
Report: The Sins of Sri Lanka's Great War Victory
The International Crisis Group, an international human rights group based in Brussels, released an alarming report on Tuesday, timed to coincide with the first...
