Jaffna District

Tamil National People's Front Jaffna District MP and two others, who were arrested in the Sri Lankan city of Jaffna on Thursday for holding a memorial to commemorate the death anniversary of former LTTE terrorist were released on bail, police said.

An illegal detention centre similar to the one discovered by UN experts in eastern Sri Lanka has been found in the country's northern Jaffna district, a former Tamil lawmaker has said, alleging that civil war detainees including Tamils were tortured in the camps.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's motorcade was stopped today by Tamil protestors in Sri Lanka's Jaffna, a district which bore the main brunt of the country's ethnic conflict in 2009. 40,000 Tamil civilians were allegedly killed in the final days of the ethnic violence. At Jaffna's Kannagi camp for about 500 people yet to be resettled after t...

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party on Thursday demanded troops be withdrawn to barracks in the former rebel heartland of Jaffna after the worst ethnic violence since the end of the island's decades-long civil war.

Government forces and separatist Tamil Tigers fought a series of gun battles in Sri Lanka's volatile north, leaving 14 rebels dead, the military said on Sunday. Separate clashes on Saturday in Vavuniya district killed eight rebels and wounded five soldiers, the defense ministry said in a statement. Other battles on Saturday in Jaffna and Welioya ...

Tamil National People's Front Jaffna District MP and two others, who were arrested in the Sri Lankan city of Jaffna on Thursday for holding a memorial to commemorate the death anniversary of former LTTE terrorist were released on bail, police said.

An illegal detention centre similar to the one discovered by UN experts in eastern Sri Lanka has been found in the country's northern Jaffna district, a former Tamil lawmaker has said, alleging that civil war detainees including Tamils were tortured in the camps.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's motorcade was stopped today by Tamil protestors in Sri Lanka's Jaffna, a district which bore the main brunt of the country's ethnic conflict in 2009. 40,000 Tamil civilians were allegedly killed in the final days of the ethnic violence. At Jaffna's Kannagi camp for about 500 people yet to be resettled after t...

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party on Thursday demanded troops be withdrawn to barracks in the former rebel heartland of Jaffna after the worst ethnic violence since the end of the island's decades-long civil war.

Government forces and separatist Tamil Tigers fought a series of gun battles in Sri Lanka's volatile north, leaving 14 rebels dead, the military said on Sunday. Separate clashes on Saturday in Vavuniya district killed eight rebels and wounded five soldiers, the defense ministry said in a statement. Other battles on Saturday in Jaffna and Welioya ...