Add to ORKGThe tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout that the world was unaware of their suffering. Now, a UN enquiry has called for war-crimes inv..
VAVUNIYA, 13 May 2015 (IRIN) - Almost six years after Sri Lanka’s bloody civil conflict came to an e...
Observers warn that the northeast remains under military occupation and that the army is increasingl...
One of the world�s longest running civil wars �officially� ended on 18 May 2009 when the Sri Lankan ...
Journalist Frances Harrison and Sri Lanka-born artist and novelist Roma Tearne discuss the horrors o...
In May 2009, the surrender of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and death of LTTE leader,...
This is a well-written, timely document which underscores the grave and comprehensive challenges tha...
Three years after the government of Sri Lanka declared an end to decades of civil conflict with sepa...
The ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka has remained virtually hidden from the outside world. Internatio...
Sri Lanka, a palm-fringed island in the Indian Ocean, is in the sixth year of peace. But as the coun...
Tens of thousands went missing during the civil war ending in 2009, including people who were killed...
The long and violent Sri Lankan Tamil conflict had its most severe impact on its closest neighbour T...
Frances Harrison, journalist and author of Still Counting the Dead, and Niromi de Soyza, former chil...
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in the final weeks of Sri Lanka's armed conflict in 2009....
What to do with Sri Lanka? The island nation, triumphant after nearly three decades of war against e...
Sri Lanka\u27s civil war came to a bloody end in May 2009, with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers ...
VAVUNIYA, 13 May 2015 (IRIN) - Almost six years after Sri Lanka’s bloody civil conflict came to an e...
Observers warn that the northeast remains under military occupation and that the army is increasingl...
One of the world�s longest running civil wars �officially� ended on 18 May 2009 when the Sri Lankan ...
Journalist Frances Harrison and Sri Lanka-born artist and novelist Roma Tearne discuss the horrors o...
In May 2009, the surrender of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and death of LTTE leader,...
This is a well-written, timely document which underscores the grave and comprehensive challenges tha...
Three years after the government of Sri Lanka declared an end to decades of civil conflict with sepa...
The ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka has remained virtually hidden from the outside world. Internatio...
Sri Lanka, a palm-fringed island in the Indian Ocean, is in the sixth year of peace. But as the coun...
Tens of thousands went missing during the civil war ending in 2009, including people who were killed...
The long and violent Sri Lankan Tamil conflict had its most severe impact on its closest neighbour T...
Frances Harrison, journalist and author of Still Counting the Dead, and Niromi de Soyza, former chil...
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in the final weeks of Sri Lanka's armed conflict in 2009....
What to do with Sri Lanka? The island nation, triumphant after nearly three decades of war against e...
Sri Lanka\u27s civil war came to a bloody end in May 2009, with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers ...
VAVUNIYA, 13 May 2015 (IRIN) - Almost six years after Sri Lanka’s bloody civil conflict came to an e...
Observers warn that the northeast remains under military occupation and that the army is increasingl...
One of the world�s longest running civil wars �officially� ended on 18 May 2009 when the Sri Lankan ...