The Proteas only have the prestige of their status as a cricketing nation to parley with — but even that appears inadequately leveraged
Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A. piece together old and new visuals to piece together a collage of the experiences that developed the artist.
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/ 7 September 2011
At least 10 000 civilians were killed in the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war but a national inquiry has failed so far to investigate war crimes.
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/ 5 February 2010
Sri Lankan police and troops began a crackdown on Friday against thousands of military deserters.
Western and Asian members of the UN Human Rights Council were divided over Sri Lanka before they were due to hold a meeting on the issue on Tuesday.
Children are being abducted from camps housing those displaced by Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict, human rights groups charged on Thursday.
The first accounts of the suffering begin to emerge from Sri Lanka’s internment camps, where as many as a quarter of a million Tamils are being held.
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.
Thousands of Sri Lankans under fire waded across a lagoon to escape the island’s war zone, where the military has surrounded Tiger rebels.
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels accused government forces of killing at least 47 civilians on Tuesday in an artillery and mortar attack on a hospital.
Tamil separatist rebels on Tuesday accused the Sri Lankan military of breaking assurances that it would refrain from using heavy weaponry.
Sri Lanka must put in practice its latest pledge not to use heavy weapons as it fights the Tamil Tiger rebels, the UN said on Monday.
Sri Lanka on Monday said heavy combat was over in a last pocket of territory held by the LTTE and it was shifting its focus to rescuing civilians.
The Sri Lankan army on Tuesday seized more territory from the Tamil Tigers as the rebels ignored a deadline to surrender, the Defence Ministry said.
Sri Lankan security forces resumed their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the island on Wednesday following a brief ceasefire.
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers said on Tuesday they were ready to negotiate a ceasefire and restart peace talks to halt decades of ethnic bloodshed.
At least 128 civilians have died and more than 700 have been injured in three days of shelling in the last remaining pocket of Tamil Tiger resistance.
Heavy shelling by the Sri Lankan army of a designated safe area has left 129 civilians dead and 282 wounded, a pro-rebel website said on Thursday.
The myth that the Tigers were unbeatable has been shattered with a victory over the separatists inevitable, Sri Lanka’s president was quoted as saying
Sri Lanka’s military readied on Monday for a final assault on Tamil Tigers boxed into a strip of jungle with thousands of trapped civilians.
More than 23 000 civilians escaped last month from a war zone in Sri Lanka’s north, where the military appears close to crushing rebels.
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.
At least 15 people were killed and another 60, including a government minister, wounded on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in southern Sri Lanka.
Soldiers killed 150 rebels carrying out waves of counter attacks, and the pace of refugees fleeing the war zone picked up speed over the weekend.
More than 100 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in two days of fighting in Sri Lanka as they tried to break a military stranglehold.
Pakistan’s interior ministry chief said on Friday he could not rule out foreign involvement in the Sri Lankan cricket attack.
The government appealed on Friday for civilians to flee the war zone and said it would open two safe passages in the area for the exodus.
Sri Lankan forces are holding back their strength against Tamil Tiger rebels to comply with international rules of war, a minister said on Monday.
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/ 25 February 2009
Sri Lankan troops have fought their way into the last town held by the Tamil Tiger separatist guerrillas, according to government sources.
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/ 24 February 2009
The elusive leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers is not expected to surrender despite losing his de facto state and may instead try to flee by boat.