Sri Lanka Vows Tamil Autonomy Despite Buddhist Resistance
Sri Lanka vowed Wednesday to grant greater autonomy to its Tamil minority in a new constitution after an influential Buddhist ...
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Sri Lanka Offers Fresh Probes Into Missing Thousands
Sri Lanka's President announced Saturday new investigations into alleged secret detention centres as part of a drive to find tens ...
UN Condemns Sri Lanka Over War Probe
As many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have died in the last few months of the fighting The United Nations ...
UN Rights Chief Blasts Sri Lanka Over War Probe
The UN rights chief on Wednesday condemned Sri Lanka's persistent failure to probe war-era atrocities, suggesting the government was afraid ...
Sri Lanka Risks Censure As President Falters On War Legacy
President Maithripala Sirisena came to power in Sri Lanka promising justice for war crimes, breaking from his hawkish predecessor and ...
Sri Lanka Rejects UN Call For Foreign Judges In War Probe
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has rejected a fresh appeal from the United Nations to allow international judges to investigate ...
Sri Lanka Prison Bus Shooting Kills Seven
Attackers opened fire on a prison bus outside Colombo on Monday, killing five prisoners and two armed guards in the ...