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A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a bus carrying riot police in Sri Lanka’s capital Friday, killing 10 people, including eight policemen, and wounding 85 others.
A bomb blast blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels killed six policemen and wounded 50 people, including civilians, in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo Friday, the military said.
Sri Lankan fighter jets pounded two Tamil Tiger rebel bases deep in the northern jungles, and infantry clashes killed 27 rebels and two government soldiers, the military said Friday.
Allegations of fraud, voter intimidation and sporadic violence marred elections in Sri Lanka’s east Saturday despite the government’s claims they would be a celebration of democracy for the region recently liberated from the Tamil Tiger rebels.
Eastern Sri Lanka voted Saturday in their first major election, less than a year after the separatist rebels lost control of the region. The poll was hailed as a democratic milestone but marred by a rebel attacks, one that left 11 people dead.
A bomb blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels ripped through a cafe in eastern Sri Lanka Friday, killing 11 people and casting a cloud over pivotal provincial elections scheduled for Saturday.
Sri Lanka’s military announced the capture of a small town in the north after fighting Friday that killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers, calling it an important step in dismantling guerrilla strongholds in the area.
Heavy weekend fighting between government troops and Tamil separatists in Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged northern region left 35 rebels and eight soldiers dead, the military said Sunday.
A fresh wave of fighting across northern Sri Lanka killed 29 ethnic Tamil rebels and one government soldier, the military said Friday.
It has been quite evident to the international community that the Sri Lankan government headed by President Mahinda Rajapakse gives two hoots to what the other nations say about it. In the latest development, a panel of international experts...
Sri Lanka welcomed its 60th Independence Day with a bomb explosion that claimed 14 lives, adding to the thousands of innocent lives lost in the conflict between the Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or the LTTE as the...
In an unprecedented move, Tamil Tiger rebels on Thursday have announced their intentions to strictly follow a Norway-brokered ceasefire that the Sri Lankan government withdrew from last week. Serious violence has erupted since the collapse of the 2002...
Haitian underage girls are now paying for taking help from the UN. They have been sexually exploited by Sri Lankan UN peace-keepers for less than $1. Haitian feminists have now woken up to the problem and are demanding inquires by the UN. Olga...
Finally Muttiah Muralitharan has reached the landmark which the entire cricketing fraternity has been waiting for since the last few months. The genius off spinner has equaled Shane Warne’s record of 708 wickets in Test Cricket, to stand jointly as...
According to Sri Lankan Defense Ministry sources, atleast 34 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in fierce clashes with government troops in the country’s north over the past two days.
It seems various peace attempts, brokered mainly by Norway,...
Last week, the UN High Commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, was on a 5-day visit to Sri Lankan in an attempt to assess the human rights situation in the country and try to temper the flow of violence that has attached itself to the country...
In Asia there are great upheavals taking place and the whole continent is in making. The major upheavals are taking place in Burma, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. In this week there are some major incidents in Asia that are reported hereunder.
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Despite winning a one-day series against India recently, when England landed in Sri Lanka no body expected them to win the one-day series against them. In the first one day international, England was beaten comprehensively but from that moment onward...
One of the world’s most dangerous and the most successful guerrilla outfit also a declared terrorist organization has always alarmed observers around the world with its tactics that has many firsts attached to its name…be it the suicide squads or the...
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Piliyan, leader of Tamil rebel break-away faction TamilEela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP), speaks to the Associated Press in Batticaloa, about 180 kilometers (113 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday May 9, 2008. The government has hailed...
