Lakshmi remembers when the guns finally fell silent in Sri Lanka, in May 2009. She had been sheltering in a shallow hole in the sand – what passed for a “bunker” for the hundreds of thousands of Tamil ...

COLOMBO, May 8 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian ...

Many Tamils have no news of loved ones who disappeared during the war The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has been authorised to collect and preserve evidence of alleged war crimes ...

Forty years ago, mobs in Sri Lanka burned 13 people alive, part of a weeklong pogrom that caused simmering ethnic unrest to soon escalate into an all-out civil war. Known in Sri Lanka as “Black July”, ...