Tamils Skeptical Of Conflict's End, Sri Lankan Acceptance
Sri Lankans were given the day off Wednesday as the government declared a national day to celebrate its victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels....
Sri Lankans were given the day off Wednesday as the government declared a national day to celebrate its victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels....
AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka declared Monday it had crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing their chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and ending hi...
New York Times | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
At least 1,500 civilians who had been trapped in Sri Lanka's shrinking war zone managed to flee on Thursday, the country's military said, as its force...
AP | KRISHAN FRANCIS | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Thousands of civilians waded across a vast lagoon under a hail of rebel gunfire Thursday, breaking out of Sri Lanka's war z...
AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Artillery shells tore through a hospital packed with wounded civilians in Sri Lanka's war zone for a second day Wednesday, ...
AP | KRISHAN FRANCIS | Posted 06.10.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — An unrelenting hail of artillery in Sri Lanka's war zone killed at least 378 civilians, according to a government doctor wh...
Sydney Morning Herald | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
It is hard to imagine Christine* in combat. But the diminutive 14-year-old with a cheeky smile and dancing eyes knows how to handle a Kalashnikov and ...
AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka agreed to stop firing heavy weapons into the northern war zone to safeguard thousands of civilians trapped there,...
The Guardian | Posted 03.23.2009 | World
Two Tamil Tiger aircraft launched a surprise bomb raid on the Sri Lankan capital last night, hitting a tax building in Colombo and injuring at least...
New York Times | Posted 06.20.2009 | World