Sri Lanka Ethnic Conflict

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday said he is keen on settling the ethnic conflict with the minority Tamil community.

The opposition candidate in Sri Lanka's Presidential election has pledged to reject demands from ethnic Tamil leaders for a federal model to solve the country's decades-long ethnic conflict if he wins next month's vote.

Sri Lanka announced on Thursday an investigation into its military over allegations of rights abuses, following intense international pressure for a war-crimes probe into the island's decades-long ethnic conflict.

Sri Lanka was to begin compiling a death toll from its ethnic conflict on Thursday as it seeks to fend off growing pressure over allegations of mass killings at the end of the war.

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...

Hackers have attacked Sri Lanka's media ministry by placing a documentary about alleged war crimes during the island's ethnic conflict on its website, an official said.

Camps which housed 300,000 displaced people by the end of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict have now all closed, three years after the war ended, the military said on Tuesday.

Capping a closely-guarded visit by a high powered Indian delegation that met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, India on saturday said it was not in favour of a military solution to the Tamil ethnic problem. ",India hopes that Sri Lanka can find a peaceful solution to the (ethnic) conflict within the framework of a united Sri Lanka that is ac...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance (TNA) along with all Tamil and Muslim parties for a meeting on Thursday to discuss the ethnic conflict in the Island country.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday said he is keen on settling the ethnic conflict with the minority Tamil community.

The opposition candidate in Sri Lanka's Presidential election has pledged to reject demands from ethnic Tamil leaders for a federal model to solve the country's decades-long ethnic conflict if he wins next month's vote.

Sri Lanka announced on Thursday an investigation into its military over allegations of rights abuses, following intense international pressure for a war-crimes probe into the island's decades-long ethnic conflict.

Sri Lanka was to begin compiling a death toll from its ethnic conflict on Thursday as it seeks to fend off growing pressure over allegations of mass killings at the end of the war.

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...

Hackers have attacked Sri Lanka's media ministry by placing a documentary about alleged war crimes during the island's ethnic conflict on its website, an official said.

Camps which housed 300,000 displaced people by the end of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict have now all closed, three years after the war ended, the military said on Tuesday.

Capping a closely-guarded visit by a high powered Indian delegation that met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, India on saturday said it was not in favour of a military solution to the Tamil ethnic problem. ",India hopes that Sri Lanka can find a peaceful solution to the (ethnic) conflict within the framework of a united Sri Lanka that is ac...

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance (TNA) along with all Tamil and Muslim parties for a meeting on Thursday to discuss the ethnic conflict in the Island country.