The few surviving leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have announced that they are transforming the former Sri Lankan rebel movemen...
Jim Luce | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.24.2009 | World
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have admitted for the first time that their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead....
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.19.2009 | World
Watching the television as the 25 year war in Sri Lanka was announced as having finally reached its dénouement, I was struck again by one of the truly great horrors of life in Asia. The very bad male jet black hair dye job.
AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 05.19.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president declared his country "liberated from separatist terror" Tuesday as the military said it recovered the...
AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka declared Monday it had crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing their chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and ending hi...
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Al Jazeera English | Posted 06.17.2009 | World