Children as young as 12 are being given guns and forced to fight on the frontline alongside desperate Tamil Tiger rebels cornered inside Sri Lanka's no-fire zone, the UN said today. Those forcibly recruited included the 16-year-old daughter of a member ...Read More
MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka plans to release the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they have been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top ...Read More
Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- The Sri Lankan government said Saturday it will lift restrictions on thousands of war-displaced ethnic Tamils still residing in squalid internment camps.
More than 300,000 people displaced by the fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger ...Read More
MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka—Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday.
Some ...Read More
UN aid chief John Holmes says those who have returned are glad
UN humanitarian chief John Holmes has confirmed that more than half the Tamils who were in refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka have now left them.
The camps were ...Read More
Sri Lanka's president Friday gave the country's top military figurepermission to leave his post immediately, a day after the army generalsubmitted retirement papers to his commander-in-chief.
In his2,200-word retirement request submitted Thursday General Sarath Fonsekasays he was misled about his promotion ...Read More
COLOMBO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has accepted the retirement of a top general who oversaw the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels after 25 years of war, an official said on Friday, leaving him free to run for president. General ...Read More
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's top general, who led the battle to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and ended the island's 30-year civil war, resigned from his post Thursday but declined to discuss his future plans. Gen. Sarath Fonseka's resignation ...Read More
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's top general, who led the battle to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and ended the island's 30-year civil war, resigned from his post Thursday but declined to discuss his future plans. Gen. Sarath Fonseka's ...Read More
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka said 164,000 civiliansdisplaced by the civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels remain incamps in the north and the government intends to reduce thenumber to less than 50,000 by the end of January. “We are now ...Read More
Sri Lanka plans to pour development money into Tamil-dominated provinces that suffered economically during years of civil war. A Sri Lankan cabinet minister spoke at the World Economic Forum's India summit.
Sri Lankan government officials are predicting the island nation's $41 ...Read More
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for an independent, international investigation of possible war crimes committed during the last few months of the war in Sri Lanka. The UN agency says there should be a ...Read More
Over the coming weeks, the Sri Lankan government plans to release nearly 40,000 ethnic Tamils confined in military run-refugee camps. The first group has already left the camps. The government has also come under renewed international pressure to investigate charges ...Read More
Sri Lanka has been condemned over its delay in freeing displaced Tamils
Sri Lanka could lose special trading rights with the bloc because of a failure to improve its human rights record, the European Union has warned.
A year-long inquiry by ...Read More
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A Sri Lankan-born billionaire's arrest in the largest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case triggered new scrutiny on Monday in his native country over the possibility his money found its way to the Tamil Tiger rebels. U.S. authorities ...Read More
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A car bomb exploded in northwest Sri Lanka on Friday and wounded 13 people, including 12 schoolchildren about to travel in the vehicle, the military said. It was the first major bomb blast reported in the country ...Read More
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's military says a bomb has exploded inside a car transporting schoolchildren in the country's northwest province, wounding 13. Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara says that the blast occurred Friday near the town of Kurunegala. He says ...Read More
Sri Lankan soldiers fired on a group of war refugees trying to flee a camp in the north of the island, wounding two, the military said Sunday. The foiled escape bid happened late Saturday in the northern district of Vavuniya, near ...Read More
UN has expressed "strong concerns" over Sri Lanka's war refugees, warning that any delay in resettlement would undermine efforts to reconcile with the country's estranged Tamil minority. Lynn Pascoe, the UN undersecretary-general for political affairs, said the world body had not ...Read More
Sri Lanka has pledged to send home nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamils beingheld in refugee camps. Theassurance to send them home by the end of January came as a top UnitedNations envoy visited the country to urge the government to hasten ...Read More
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lankan refugees held in campssince the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels in May are “impatient”to return to their homes, Lynn Pascoe, the United Nationspolitical chief, said after visiting centers in the north. “I saw some efforts ...Read More
