26 year old B.Sivakumar was mentally challenged, he lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Being mentally disabled he used to throw stones on passing trains and buses, poor...

Sri Lanka’s agreement to probe war crimes allegations related to its defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels is a smokescreen to avoid an international inquiry, a human...

The situation for the final of the Tri-series between India and Sri Lanka on Monday is anything but ideal. Indian skipper MS Dhoni, after their loss to Sri Lanka on...

George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (Remember Lasantha?). One is also reminded of words of the 19th century poet...

Sri Lanka “categorically denied” that its troops were involved in war crimes against Tamils after a video surfaced allegedly showing a government soldier...

The passage given below is taken from George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984.” (Part 2, chapter 9) Given this background, one could infer, if one did not...

It’s like almost eons since the death of the LTTE supremo Prabhakaran and associates and the claims of end of the war. And the number of Human Rights agencies as well...

Sri Lankan authorities said on Friday said they were interrogating the new head of the Tamil Tigers, their most-wanted target since crushing the separatist rebels and...

It was just after dawn and the fish market beneath this port city’s clock tower was humming. Fishermen shouldering baskets laden with the night’s catch tipped their...

There lies an eerie silence, on the grassy fields pock marked with craters scattered amongst the broken trees and trampled flowers where, twenty thousand died because...

About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war,...

They begin each day saluting the national flag of the country they had vowed to defeat or die trying. Gone are the cyanide capsules that, like all Tamil Tiger rebels,...

Five Sri Lankan doctors have recanted their allegations that thousands of civilians were killed in the final days of the government’s war with the Tamil Tiger...

The Sri Lankan Government is trying to siphon off millions of pounds of humanitarian aid by imposing a 0.9 per cent tax on all funding for aid groups, including the...

Sri Lanka’s economy can bounce back from its weakest growth in six years and become the “Hong Kong of India” as the end of almost three decades of civil war...

Early this month in capital Colombo, the Sri Lankan military showcased its finest hardware at a ceremonial parade, apparently to mark its May victory against the LTTE....

More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final throes of the Sri Lankan civil war, most as a result of government shelling, an investigation by The Times has...

The UN’s high commissioner for human rights has called for an independent investigation into alleged atrocities by both sides in Sri Lanka’s civil...

It was one of the longest running insurgencies in the world led by most ruthless and hostile terrorist organization thoroughly committed to the cause of establishing a...

A couple of years back I happened to come across four Sri Lankan’s Army officers who reveled that their country is passing through a Indian sponsored war with ...