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Sarath Fonseka has been handed a three-year sentence for ‘false statements’ he made about a state order to kill separatist Tamil fighters.
Sri Lanka on Thursday ruled out giving visas to members of a United Nations panel looking into possible war crimes.
Sri Lanka will hold early presidential elections on January 26, officials said on Friday.
Sri Lanka’s president will appoint a committee to probe a US report of possible war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil Tigers.
Sri Lanka’s successful manhunt for the new head of the Tamil Tigers began with the phone of the dead man he succeeded, Vellupillai Prabhakaran.
Sri Lanka’s army chief said Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran’s body was found on Tuesday.
As Sri Lanka declared victory in one of the world’s most intractable wars, the EU and US urged its government to reach out to its Tamil population.
Sri Lankan troops won the final battle in one of the world’s most intractable separatist wars, and put the island nation under government control.
Tamil Tiger rebels launched suicide attacks against Sri Lankan troops fighting on Sunday to deliver a death blow to the separatists.
Thousands of Sri Lankans under fire waded across a lagoon to escape the island’s war zone, where the military has surrounded Tiger rebels.
A Tamil Tiger who was among among thousands of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka’s war zone into army-controlled areas set off a blast that killed 17.
Sri Lanka’s navy rescued more than 640 people who fled the war zone in a clutch of small boats as Tiger rebels fired, the military said on Wednesday.
The Tamil Tiger rebels on Saturday called a defiant air raid on the Sri Lankan capital a success, despite the planes missing their stated targets.
A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber hiding among a group of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka’s war zone blew herself up on Monday, killing at least 28.
Sri Lanka’s navy forced a fleeing Tamil Tiger plane to turn back in barrages of anti-aircraft fire, military sources said on Wednesday.
Sri Lankan attack helicopters bombed Tamil Tiger positions on Saturday, a day after ground forces seized the rebel headquarters town of Kilinochchi.
Sri Lankan troops have captured the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels’ headquarters town of Kilinochchi, the Sri Lankan president said on Friday.
Sri Lankan troops marched into the Tamil Tigers’ de facto capital of Kilinochchi and the town is about to fall to the government , an official said.
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed six paramilitary guards and wounded more than a dozen others in a residential area in Colombo.
Simultaneous army attacks on Tamil Tiger defences in Sri Lanka killed 120 guerrillas and 25 soldiers on Tuesday, the military said.
