April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka rejected a cease-firecall by Tamil Tiger rebels as a “joke” as a Tamil group saidthe army must stop killing civilians trapped in the last rebel-held territory in the north. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ...Read More
Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people locked up since the end of the country's bitter civil war six months ago.
Two days after the ...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 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it will allow greater freedom of movement to refugees held in military-guarded camps from next month, after facing pressure to speed up resettlement of thousands of Tamils displaced by war. The government's announcement ...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
Sri Lanka's ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees, detained in government camps, will be freed by December 1, according to a senior official.
Basil Rajapaksa, an adviser to his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, said on Saturday the detainees - numbering ...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
Tim Donaghy, scourge of N.B.A. officiating, apparently hovers over the N.F.L., too. Cincinnati receiver Chad Ochocinco was fined $20,000 for a joking attempt to “bribe” an official by flashing a dollar bill during a replay challenge of a disputed catch. Ochocinco ...Read More
CINCINNATI — Chad Ochocinco's pretend $1 bribe is going to cost him a lot more.
The Cincinnati Bengals receiver was fined $20,000 and reprimanded by the NFL for taking a dollar bill onto the field during an officials' review of one ...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
Government officials in Colombo confirm the chief of Sri Lanka's armed forces has quit his post, but are not commenting on speculation he is poised to challenge the island nation's president in an upcoming election. The war hero would give ...Read More
Gen. Sarath Fonseka's resignation comes amid growing media reports that he is planning to contest the next presidential election as an opposition candidate, challenging incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Fonseka has not confirmed the media reports. An official from the president's office ...Read More
COLOMBO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's shares hit a twomonth low on Tuesday, as investor appetite declined due toeconomic woes and protests ahead of polls, while the centralbank's cautious flexibility drove the rupee to a six-monthhigh. The All-Share Price Index ...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
