The 26-year-long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE officially ended in May 2009 after claiming around 70,000 lives and displacing four times as many. Both sides committed a ...
In its lamplit hall were 60 bronze sculptures, adorned with thousands of pearls gathered from the conquered island of Lanka ... trade networks. Chola aristocrats invested war-loot into a wave ...
A Tamil himself, he blames the Tamil Tigers for many of the atrocities carried out in Sri Lanka's civil war. The director told BBC Asian Network's Nalini Sivathasan why he feels the way he does.
More than 20,000 people were missing at the end of the country's civil war Sri Lanka's president has acknowledged for the first time that more than 20,000 people who disappeared during the country ...