Latest articles on Tamil Tigers

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.

The Sri Lankan government vowed on Friday to capture all Tamil Tiger-held territory within 48 hours.

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.

Tamil Tiger rebels have prevented thousands of civilians from leaving Sri Lanka's war zone," the UN said on Monday.

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels struck back against a major government offensive on Wednesday with suicide attacks on merchant ships.

Sri Lanka government troops on Wednesday captured a strip of land from Tamil Tigers after heavy fighting across the island's north left 42 rebels and a soldier dead, the Defence Ministry said. Security forces killed the guerrillas from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in separate clashes in the Mannar, Weli Oya and Jaffna districts since Tuesday evening, the ministry said.

Police and security forces went on alert across Sri Lanka on Thursday, hours after the government announced its withdrawal from a tattered ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels, security officials said. The already tight security in the capital was further strengthened one day after suspected rebels set off a roadside bomb that killed five and wounded 28.