The Proteas only have the prestige of their status as a cricketing nation to parley with — but even that appears inadequately leveraged
M.I.A., otherwise known as Matangi Maya Arulpragasam, is a Tamil activist and musician whose work says as much about her as it does about us
Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A. piece together old and new visuals to piece together a collage of the experiences that developed the artist.
The latest arrests in Sri Lanka are part of a campaign to deter witnesses from giving evidence to a new investigative mechanism, writes Yasmin Sooka.
The Island of Impunity report cites witness accounts that army torture, sexual violence and enforced disappearance continue in part today.
Sri Lanka’s military has been preparing its own documentary on the final battle with Tamil Tiger rebels as a response to allegations of war crimes.
Darchiga Kuken was sheltering in a bunker when a group of about 20 Tamil Tiger soldiers arrived and demanded that she went with them.
In the aftermath of the Sri Lankan government’s decisive military victory over the Tamil Tigers there is
the danger of not winning the peace.
The leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was shot dead on Monday while trying to flee advancing troops, defence officials said.
Sri Lanka said on Saturday it had smashed the Tamil Tigers’ maritime capability as Colombo pressed on with an offensive to crush the rebels.
The Sri Lankan government vowed on Friday to capture all Tamil Tiger-held territory within 48 hours.
The Sri Lankan military have accused Tamil Tigers of using phosphorus bombs in an attempt to face off against an onslaught by government troops.
Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces battling in Sri Lanka are using thousands of trapped civilians as little more than ”cannon fodder”.
A massive artillery barrage by the Sri Lankan army on Sunday night killed at least 257 civilians and left another 814 wounded.
Sri Lanka told Britain and France that it would keep up its military offensive until the leaders of the rebel Tamil Tigers have been captured.
A Sri Lankan court on Friday released a Tamil editor who had been detained over alleged links to Tiger air attacks in the capital, an official said.
Tamil Tigers encircled in a strip of land by Sri Lankan troops are putting up stiff resistance despite calls for their surrender, the military said.
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.
A Sri Lankan newspaper editor has been detained over alleged links to a Tamil Tiger air attack in the capital, a family member said on Thursday.
About 2 000 people have fled Sri Lanka’s shrinking war zone over the past two days as troops fight towards a final showdown with Tiger rebels.
Charges by the UN that 2 800 civilians had been killed in Sri Lanka in recent weeks were ”unsubstantiated”, it was reported on Saturday.
At least 32 Tamil Tiger rebels have died in the latest push by Sri Lankan government troops into the rebels’ fiefdom, it was reported on Friday.
At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday and another 60, including a government minister, were wounded in a suicide bombing in southern Sri Lanka.
A rights group on Friday urged Sri Lanka to investigate recent attacks against the media, saying it was disappointed with the government’s stance.
Human Rights Watch called on Thursday on the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigerss to allow civilians trapped in the war zone to flee to safety.
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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.
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/ 21 February 2009
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.
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/ 16 February 2009
Tamil Tiger rebels have prevented thousands of civilians from leaving Sri Lanka’s war zone," the UN said on Monday.
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/ 13 February 2009
Fighting between government forces and rebels are killing about 40 civilians every day, the top health official in the region said on Friday.
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/ 11 February 2009
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers on Wednesday denied gunning down civilians streaming out of the country’s war zone.
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/ 3 February 2009
Patients who could walk fled one of the last functioning hospitals in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone on Tuesday after it was hit by artillery shells.