Mahinda Samarasinghe
Nov 1 2007, Indian

The island nation of Sri Lanka, in throes of civil war since the past decade and half with its security forces fighting rebel armies of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), has been charged with torturing prisoners and civilians in their...

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